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Communicating Child Therapy With School: A Parent Guide
Your child’s therapist and your child’s teacher have probably never spoken to each other. They see the same child, work toward overlapping goals, and spend more waking hours with your child than almost anyone else. Yet the only bridge between… Continue reading
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Understanding Your Child’s Therapy Report: A Parent Guide
You read the sentence three times. “Demonstrates emerging bilateral coordination with moderate verbal prompting in structured contexts.” You open a browser tab. Then another. Twenty minutes later you have seven tabs open and you are less sure than when you… Continue reading
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How to Effectively Review Your Child’s Therapy Progress
Most parents prepare for a therapy progress review the night before, from memory. That is the whole problem. Six months of daily life does not fit into one evening of remembering, and the review is the one meeting where your… Continue reading
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Questions to Ask Your Child’s Therapist at Every Stage
It is 9:40 pm and you are typing a message to your child’s therapist. You have rewritten the first sentence four times. Is this too much? Should this wait until the next session? You put the phone down. The question… Continue reading
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What to Expect at Your Child’s First Therapy Appointment
You are in the car, five minutes from the clinic. You catch your child’s eyes in the rearview mirror and give the little speech you rehearsed last night, about a nice person, about toys, about how you will be right… Continue reading
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Organizing Child Therapy Paperwork: What to Keep
Therapy Notes vs Medical Records: What Parents Actually Need to Keep The email from your child’s school arrives on a Tuesday. The IEP team would like a copy of the original diagnostic evaluation before next week’s meeting. You know you… Continue reading
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How to Monitor Your Child’s Therapy Progress
Somewhere in your papers there is a goals sheet from the first assessment. It is dated eight months ago. Some of it your child has quietly outgrown. Some of it, you suspect, nobody is actively working on anymore. And you… Continue reading
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Three Essential Steps to Track Child Therapy Progress
Somewhere in your papers there is a goals sheet from the first assessment. It is dated eight months ago. Some of it your child has quietly outgrown. Some of it, you suspect, nobody is actively working on anymore. And you… Continue reading
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How to Create a Therapy Binder That Actually Works
The assessment report is in a drawer in the kitchen. The speech homework is a photo on your phone, somewhere between screenshots. The OT’s exercise sheet is on the fridge, under a magnet, behind a drawing. Three therapists, three systems,… Continue reading
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What Should You Write After Your Child’s Therapy Session?
The last five minutes of a therapy session are the most important and the worst possible time to absorb information. The therapist is explaining this week’s homework. Your child is already done, one shoe on, heading for the door. You… Continue reading
