The students familiarize themselves with the information in the team manuals prior to the first meeting of the team. These meetings generally last two hours. After an introduction to the team, the students are given a list of clients that the team needs to serve and any other information available. The students then decide how to approach the task of scheduling the clients. 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.