Preparing for Therapy Sessions
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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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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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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
