The I-Team is working diligently to ensure access to services and supports is still available to all students and families. This is a compilation of resources that can be used during this time of distance-based education and support.
Physical and Occupational Therapy
School-Based Services
- School closure toolkit (PDF): Printable visual supports for home programming, including Sensory needs, Life Skills, Academics, Movement, and Leisure
- School-based perspectives for physical therapists during COVID-19: Offers guidelines/considerations for the use of synchronous, direct service PT via Telehealth. Resources are relevant for all disciplines. Includes valuable templates for initiating and maintaining services, as well as a focused set of links on education and therapies for exceptional children during COVID-19. Requires Google account login.
- Free Resources for OT, PT & Speech Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: This collection of mostly-ad-free, cost free resources includes sections on Home Activities, COVID-19 Guidance and Resources, and Telehealth Resources from AOTA, APTA, ASHA, Medicad, etc. SeekFreaks is committed to providing high-quality, evidence-based resources.
Structuring a Telehealth Session
I-Team Early Intervention Project has created a resource bundle for providers who are looking for support on how to structure telehealth sessions, particularly for learners who cannot attend to – or would not benefit from -- a direct teaching model. It is EI focused, but much of the content should be relevant across age ranges.
The packet includes:
- EI Routines-Based Information Gathering Phone Interview/School Routines-Based Information Gathering Phone Interview – guides questions you can ask to understand the environment and daily rhythms of your client/student at home prior to first telehealth session.
- Telehealth Materials Checklist - A spreadsheet of toys, structures and household items a family can use during telehealth sessions. Can be sent before the first session, used in an informational conversation when starting telehealth, or a support to generate your own activity ideas.
- “Welcome to Telehealth…” Email Template – Explains the basics of what families need, and how they should be prepared to participate, during a telehealth session. Can be modified to fit your needs.
- Structuring Telehealth Sessions for Early Intervention – Guides you through the Before, During, and After of an EI/Early Childhood session using the Coaching Model. Includes scripts that may support you in asking questions and guiding your work.
- Telepractice Self-Evaluation – A guide for reflection after completing a telehealth session.
Agency of Education
COVID-19 Guidance for Vermont Schools - Current guidance from Vermont Agency of Education on response and expectations in the time of COVID-19.
Medicaid
- Telemedicine and telephone basic fact sheet for therapists (docx): most recent update from Vermont Medicaid on the use of the telephone as a platform for rehabilitation services.
- How to start using a telehealth platform (pptx): Brief presentation to support using a telehealth platform for the first time. Features the use of doxy.me.
Supporting Play
These documents were created by Kati Ringer, Personnel Development Coordinator for Children's Integrated Servoces Early Intervention, Vermont. They inlcude a variety of open-ended play activities and household play materials.
Assistive Technology
- Executive Functioning App Matrix is a Google site that includes a variety of apps, extensions, and printables explicitly designed to support functional participation. These materials are grouped by function.