Team collaboration is important for making interactions and curriculum a success. Weekly planning between all team members is essential. This includes speech, occupational and physical therapists as well as educators, parents, etc. Educator and speech therapist develop lesson plans cooperatively one hour per week. Lesson plans are routed to therapists two weeks in advance.
Therapists attend planning as schedules allow.
This provides cohesive planning with each professional looking at the whole child and curriculum versus each individual strand. Mandatory monthly meetings are held on each child to discuss progress on IEP goals and plan strategies for the upcoming month according to the child's needs. This process is made possible because of the support from administration making this a priority in children's programming. In the past we attempted various forms of inclusionary experiences within our setting. These included involving disabled and non-disabled peers in swimming and recreational activities, art activities and community outings.