Once the scheduling has been completed, the students contact clients and families to finalize intervention arrangements. Most intervention begins within one week of the first team meeting. This is much sooner than in our previous, more traditional model. Some students provide 8 to 10 hours of intervention per week, others 5 hours over the 12 weeks of therapy each semester. Some students co-intervene with students from their own or other teams.
Flexibility is the key to our service provision.
During the weekly team meetings, the students rotate the roles of facilitator and recorder. They set their own agenda and run the meetings. Clinical faculty add items to the agenda for discussion but do not direct the meetings. Students learn far more than they would from only their own clients and a clinical faculty member. They learn from the experiences of others.