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.