progress in a way that is positive for all parties involved requires
careful preparation and specific skills. Dr Kay Mathieson explains.
On the face of it, meeting with parents and carers to talk about the progress their child has made and to plan how to help continued progress should be easy. However, organising and facilitating a meeting successfully takes skill, detailed preparation, confidence and a high level of professionalism.
Progress or review meetings with parents and carers do not take place in isolation. In a sense the preparation for review meetings begins the first time you meet a child and their parents or carers. The day-to-day relationship builds into a pattern of expectations, trust and understanding of each other.
If things go well, this is a two-way flow of information with shared problem-solving and thinking related to observations of the child's respon- ses, learning and development. The review meeting discussions can then fit naturally into this relationship and will have continuity over time.
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