The School-based Practitioner and 504 Plans
504 plans can create some uncertainty for school based therapists. What is my role? How is a student eligible? What is my service...
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Susan Cecere
- Aug 24
- 1 min
Turning the Battleship!!
Summer has sailed and school-based therapists are back at it. Let this year be the year you “turn the battleship” and embrace...
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Susan Cecere
- Jan 7
- 1 min
Starting off 2023 with a bang!!
Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a joyous holiday season with family and friends. Sequoia is ready to help you on your 2023...
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Susan Cecere
- Aug 4, 2022
- 3 min
Turning Your Professional Battleship
School year 22-23 is right around the corner.... I am sure many of you are thinking about students new and old to your caseload. And...
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Susan Cecere
- Mar 14, 2022
- 2 min
What can a clinical reasoning tool do for me?
Often there are comments and concerns posted on school based Facebook groups on the topic of decision-making regarding services as part...
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Susan Cecere
- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
Unnecessary Services...What's a therapist to do?
I read the school-based PT Lounge Facebook group often looking for clues to assist me in my work with therapists as part of Sequoia. A...
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Susan Cecere
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min
Supplementary Aids and Services (SaS): The Keys to a Student's LRE
IDEA has a whole section on supplementary aids and services which you can read about here:https://sites.ed.gov/idea/regs/b/a/300.42 But...
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susancecerept
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
Interviews Anyone?
So…the Stakeholder Interview Collection has been posted on my site! Why do I feel so compelled to share these forms with you? Because...
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susancecerept
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
Questions, Questions
“Where do you get your ideas?” From Seth Godin sethgodin.com Seth speaks to asking the right questions. Because questions generate ideas....
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susancecerept
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
The Quality of Our Work: Part 4
In my last post, I posited that not asking the right kind of questions and engaging the right stakeholders could impact the quality of...
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susancecerept
- Jan 19, 2021
- 1 min
The Quality of our Work- Bias: Part 3
I want to look at bias, which can impact our ability to provide quality services and not “do the best I can”. There are several types of...
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susancecerept
- Jan 11, 2021
- 2 min
The Quality of our Work: Part 2
So, my last post raised a bit of ire regarding quality and “I did my best”. That difference between “high quality” and “I did my best”...
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susancecerept
- Jan 4, 2021
- 1 min
Be the best version of your school based self!
At end of the year reflection on school-based practice I had some practice oriented “ah-has” from Seth Godin’s...
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susancecerept
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
Quality services versus I did my best: A take on Seth Godin(www.sethgodin.com) and school practice
Do you ever ask yourself, “did my session with my student/child meet the current professional standards of school-based practice? Did my...
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susancecerept
- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
Special ed, COVID and legal challenges...what should you know?
Districts continue to wrangle with the impact of COVID – and making determinations on how school year 20-21 should go forward. Nothing is...
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susancecerept
- Oct 15, 2020
- 3 min
Prognosis…and the difficult application of prognosis to school-based decision making.
As therapists, we are fortunate enough to have an increasing body of knowledge that helps us make decisions about a student’s prognosis....
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susancecerept
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
Mentors Matter
I've been a school based physical therapist for a long time....and writing IEP content has gotten easier over time, but why can it still...
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susancecerept
- Sep 4, 2020
- 1 min
Its a Drill? Its a Drill?
There is a role for school based therapists to play in the emergency evacuation of students with disabilities. Consider this: areas of ...
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susancecerept
- Aug 26, 2020
- 1 min
Virtual Assessment
Ecological assessment – a first step in an evidenced based school-based assessment In these virtual times, how can a school-based...
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susancecerept
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Start your School Year off Right!
Here we are! Another school year about to begin....and know school based therapists are thinking " how will this year go"? How many...
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