Generally Speaking...

Parents are an important and crucial part of our assessment and treatment processes. We welcome your imput, want you to participate in the evaluation/treatment sessions, and encourage you to be present (physically in the room, or by observing via video monitor). Consistent follow-through with activities assigned, suggested, or recommended by the therapist will maximize your child's progress. 

• At this time of year, the cold and flu season is upon us! Wash your hands and your child's, following any outing to a public place. If you or your child is sick, especially with a fever or in the contagious stages of an illness, STAY HOME! Do not take your child to day care, school, extra curricular activities, or to therapy. You unfairly expose others, slow the rate of recovery down for your child, and lessen the ability to perform at optimal levels for any activity.
• READ daily to your child, even if he/she is elementary-aged, including a variety of literature types and themes. As your child becomes familiar with a book or story, he/she can be encouraged to participate at some level (assisting with the reading, predicting, answering questions, retelling, etc.)
• Practice good rules of conversation.
• Turn-taking. Allow each person the opportunity and courtesy to express their idea or question, without interruption, and with 100 percent listening on the part of others.
• Interrupting. Teach appropriate ways to interrupt, and when it is okay to interrupt.