Personal Portfolios

Cerebra provides a free service to help parents create a personal portfolio for their child. A personal portfolio is a user-friendly booklet about your child to introduce them to others. It is especially helpful when your child has communication difficulties.

You can look at a sample portfolio to give you an idea of what we can produce. In this case, it is my daughter Alissa’s portfolio. We find it is a helpful tool. Teachers and other professionals read it!

You can print a pro forma to help you put together information that you may want in the portfolio. If your child has complex needs, you may need to go into much more detail. You may also want to add information that is not in the pro forma. It is just a guide and is not intended to hamper any creativity on your part.

It makes it more personal if you write it in the first person as if your child were writing it. Send us photographs, drawings, and any other materials (awards, achievement certificates.) you want included. We will return any item you send after copying. If you have a digital camera, you can send us photos on a CD or by e-mail. We can then work on a draft portfolio that we will send back to you for changes and corrections. When you get a copy you are happy with, we will print and bind it. You will also get a CD with the portfolio on it in the pdf. format.

Some parents may be skilled at the computer and would want to do the whole portfolio themselves. Then they could send us the finished pages by e-mail or post and we could print it here. You let us know how we can help you.

I hope you will enjoy putting this portfolio together. It can be a fun exercise and if able your child may well enjoy helping you with parts of it. It is also time-consuming getting all the information together. Once you have a finished copy, it is much easier to revise as the child grows.