Home Consulting Program: Home Visits
Parents spend more time with their children than all of their teachers and therapists combined. By training parents to be their child’s best P.L.A.Y. partner, the child receives intensive (more hours), high quality intervention. Our consultants show you practical ways of making every interaction with your child a growing and learning experience. Bath-time, meals, outdoor play: each of these daily routines can be used to help your child build meaningful relationships.
Home visits allow the consultant to see your child in the place where he/she is most comfortable, so the consultant can see how he/she acts most naturally. The home consultant will videotape segments of the home visits, to monitor your child’s progress and give suggestions for more effective techniques. This allows the home consultant and your family to design and implement an individual P.L.A.Y. Skill Sequence (see summary to the right) for your child. The P.L.A.Y. Project DVD is the best introduction to the P.L.A.Y. Skill Sequence.
Our trained consultants provide monthly home visits to give families detailed guidance about ways to implement the DIR/Floortime model of Stanley Greenspan MD at home.
Home Consultation typically includes:
- Family support
- 10 visits per year
- 3 hour sessions roughly divided between 1 hour of modeling, 1 hour of coaching the family and 1 hour of feedback.
- Selected videotaping of P.L.A.Y. interactions with written evaluations and feedback.
- Assistance with IEP Goals.
The Home Consulting Program has a thorough program evaluation that includes:
- Family satisfaction with consulting services
- Documentation of progress using a combination of family information, various questionnaires/assessments and video rating scales.
- Resources for families about other types of comprehensive therapies (Speech & Language, Occupational Therapy, etc.)
