What is Blue Bird’s Virtual Therapy?
Blue Bird Day offers an opportunity for children and families who usually get therapy services in-clinic to have the same therapy in virtual therapy sessions over a HIPPA compliant video conferencing platform.
What are Virtual Home Sessions?
Virtual home sessions are therapy sessions provided in the comfort of your own home implemented by our experienced therapists.
Virtual home sessions use a HIPPA compliant video conference platform to provide face-to-face screenings, evaluations, and therapy in your home. Virtual home sessions focus on:
- Parent coaching
- Home setup and organization
- Generalizing skills from school/clinic to the home
- Home focused goals
- Continuing current treatment in the comfort of your home
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How does Blue Bird’s Virtual Therapy work?
Check-In: see how the week has gone. This is where the therapist can problem solve any arising concerns the parents are noting with their child, and how they can best support their child through difficulties.
Make a Schedule: with the parents and child for what the session will look like. The schedule will incorporate the child’s goals and also what the child wants to do.
Therapy Activities: The therapist will lead the child through several therapeutic activities based on their goals.
Session Wrap Up: discuss what the child did well, and what goals to keep working on.
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How is Blue Bird’s Virtual Therapy incorporated into the day?
We recommend building a consistent daily schedule for your family that includes 8 core routines; Morning/Bedtime, Movement Time, Floortime Play, Mealtime, Circle Time, Creative Time, Relaxation Time and Table Time. We have created several resources below to support you in creating the best schedule for your child. This includes a downloadable fillable excel to outline your day, a visual schedule to communicate with your child and team, as well as weekly themed lesson plans for activities to do in the home.
Also, be sure to check back in for updates on upcoming virtual events!
What are the goals of Blue Bird’s Virtual Therapy?
The goal of our virtual therapy program is to ensure that your child still receives the utmost care, even when faced with a global pandemic. Between our online home curriculum, virtual therapy services and engaging social media content- we will bring everything that is so great about Blue Bird Day into your home so your child‘s progress continues to grow.
