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Tips for parents to communicate effectively with early childhood professionals

Disabled child

Disabled children do lack certain characteristics, but also have some rich talents. Along with disabilities, they have a plethora of abilities as well, which probably other people cannot acknowledge but parents surely can. Parents are well acquainted with all abilities that their disabled child has.

Disabled children require help of early childhood professionals who try to make a disabled child independent enough so that he can take care of himself and survive on his own. Usuaully, this process involves some therapies and treatments. However, for a perfect treatment, everything, every behavior pattern, habits, likes, dislikes, their needs, and strengths have to come in notice of a doctor. Parents must serve as advocates for their children.

Parents have to communicate all the needs, strengths, likes, and dislikes of their child to a doctor, so that he can devise an ideal treatment for the child. Whatever you communicate to the doctor will decide the level of appropriateness of the treatment that your son or daughter would get. Not every treatment is suitable for everybody, only customized treatments are. You can only make your child get a customized treatment if you speak for them, speak their true nature out to a doctor. Following are some tips for parents, which will help them seek an appropriate treatment from early childhood professionals for their disabled children:

Know the strengths and needs of your child

Individual differences govern the developmental skills of children, as in some children take lesser time to develop skills than others. In spite of these individual differences, there is a certain rate considered normal for the development of skills. The children who do not match this rate, lag behind, are the ones who are disabled, and parents should be able to identify this problem at the earliest. The earlier you find about the problem, the earlier you can arrange for a treatment and make your child’s life better.

Parents should be able to differentiate between the strengths and the needs of their child. The strengths would be like your child smiles back at you and others, or follows the movement of you or some object by turning his head, make sound or babbles, reach out hand to hold things, understands small words, likes it when other children are around, and speaks short but clear sentences.

The needs and the behavior that you should be concerned about is when the child does not respond, does not show any interest to play with other children, does not even utter a single word, and does not react to conversation. You need to tell all these strengths and weaknesses to an early childhood professional, so that he gets to the rot of your child’s disorder and successfully cures it.

Be confident

Parents should have faith in themselves that they are the only ones who know their child best. As you know your child inside out, you can tell all their strengths, needs, likes and dislikes to a childhood professional. As your child grows, possibly the likes, dislikes, and strengths and weaknesses also change, so parents have to keep an eye over all the changes so that they can give a true report to a doctor.

Question the early childhood professionals

Parents know the best about their child though, but still it is always better to learn new things from a childhood professional so that you become a better judge and an advocate for your child. You can clear all doubts with them like what all you can do to make your child more comfortable and fit.

Summary:

Disabled children cannot easily define themselves, but their parents can. In such cases, parents serve as advocates for their children.

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