Teaching · Special Education

A home plan sized to the time the family really has.

Start from the school goal and the minutes the family can give. Plan short activities, log what they report each week, and the organizer shows what to cut, what to send home and what to make harder.

$12one-time · every device you sign in on

Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 130 items.

The home plan

One plan per student; add a report each week. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Planned weekly minutes against the family’s time, the gaps in skills and materials, a read of the weekly reports, and a note for home.
Who it is for
School occupational therapists and assistants, special education teachers, and the families they plan with.
Format
Browser form. One saved plan per student; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
a few minutes, most days
Drawn for this page. Short practice the family can keep up beats a long list they cannot.

How to use it

  1. Start a plan with a code or initials and the date.
  2. Write the school goal and mark the skills it depends on.
  3. Ask the family how many minutes and days they can really give, and what they have at home.
  4. Plan two or three short activities, then log a report each week.
  5. Send the note for home in the way the family asked for.

Start a home plan

Before you plan

Fit beats volume

Families keep up a short plan that fits their week better than a long one. Plan inside the minutes they name, and use materials they already have.

Listen to the reports

Too hard or refused means the activity needs a smaller step. Easy means it is time to add one. Two empty weeks mean the plan does not fit.

What it is not

Not a therapy prescription. Activities come from the student’s occupational therapist and support the school plan; stop anything that causes pain.

Sources

  1. American Occupational Therapy Association. Occupational therapy in school settings and family-centered practice, aota.org.
  2. Novak I, Cusick A, Lannin N. Occupational therapy home programs for cerebral palsy: double-blind, randomized, controlled trial. Pediatrics, 2009.
  3. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.34(c)(6): occupational therapy as a related service.
  4. Weekly minutes are activity minutes times days a week; the family’s capacity is minutes a day times days a week.

The example student, plan and reports are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.