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Creating a Simple Therapy Routine at Home (5 Minutes a Day)
It is 8:40 on a Tuesday night. The dishes are done, mostly. You walk past the fridge and see it again. The home practice sheet from your child’s therapist, held up by a banana magnet, dated three weeks ago. You… Continue reading
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Preparing for Child Therapy: The Complete Parent Guide
The intake packet sits on the kitchen counter. Twelve pages. Developmental history, family history, a consent form with a signature line that suddenly feels heavier than it should. Your child’s first appointment is Thursday, and somewhere between page four and… Continue reading
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What Counts as Progress in Your Child’s Therapy?
Someone at a family dinner leans over and asks the question you dread. So, is the therapy actually working? You open your mouth and nothing useful comes out. Your child still has meltdowns. Still avoids certain foods. Still says fewer… Continue reading
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Home Practice Ideas to Discuss With Your Child’s Therapist
One hour of therapy a week. That leaves 167 hours at home, and most parents feel the weight of every one of them. You want to help between sessions. You just do not know what helping is supposed to look… Continue reading
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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
