Child Development Network

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Wendy is a teacher-trained education specialist working at the CDN. If you consult with Wendy, she can assist with many of the key components of the MaP process. These include:

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By now you have written your MaP Plan, have identified and recruited your child's team, and are ready to get underway helping your child.

This document has 6 sections:

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Setting up your team involves a number of steps with each person on the team:

Your MaP Folder should now be complete. It is a project plan that includes information about your child, what you would like to achieve and who you are working with. It allows you to record progress, and carry documents that will help the team work efficiently together.

The folder is only useful if you make it an active document.You need to carry it around with you on all occasions where you will have important discussions about your child.

You may wish to MAKE A COPY to give to key people, such as your child's teacher. Your copy may include:

The final step is a consideration of what else to include in your MaP Folder.

Remember, the folder should be relatively easy to carry around, so only include documents that help understand what is happening at the moment, with the project planning, and, with the project management of your journey into the future.

The checklist gives some ideas of documents you may wish to include.

So far we have

1. A summary of your child (to help people understand)
2. A list of people involved (your team)
3. A vision of what you are trying to achieve (your goals)
4. A summary of your work with the CDN

Once you are underway, the team is involved, and you are working towards your goals, you need a way to track progress. These forms are to help you.

On these forms you can write progress notes, which may include:

We suggest you have a page in your MaP Folder to briefly summarise your work with us at the CDN. The page might include:

• Who you see
• How often you see them
• What you are working on (which areas of your child's special needs)
• How you are doing that work
• What you are working towards

The template is for you to print and hand-write, the document allows you to edit on the computer. These formats are suggested only.

Your child moves to a new class, or has a new teacher. How can you introduce your child's special needs in the most efficient way?

If you bring along a folder with many reports and letters, it may be overwhelming and difficult for the new teacher to understand what is going on.

The idea of an introduction summary is to efficiently introduce your child, by including their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the areas of special need.

Who are you going to be working with to help your child? Everybody who has an influence on your child's life, whether they work directly with your child, or indirectly through their support for you, can be part of your team.

When you have finished this section, you should have an efficient list of the people you would like to work with.

Documenting Your Child's Team

If you want to write it out by hand, print out the PDF template.
If you want to edit the document on your computer, use the DOC template.

The most important section in your MaP Folder is the goals you want to achieve for your child. This should be at the front of the folder.

These goals are your statement of:

• What is most important for you to work on
• What is most important for you to achieve.

Goals help everybody work on the same issues, and work in the same direction

Setting Goals

If you want to write them by hand, print out the PDF template.
If you want to edit them on your computer, use the DOC template.