With Heather Bishop, SLP in exclusive collaboration with Christine Michailides, RTC
Objective
Heather Bishop is one of the most highly sought-after Speech Language Pathologists in BC, but her caseload is always full. This collaboration removes some common barriers that therapists experience in managing caseloads and provides useful information and recommendations to families about their children’s social communication profiles.
Assessment Process
After the preparation tasks are completed, clients are placed on a separate waitlist. The preparation task involves:
Audio/Video sampling, long-form parent questionnaire, and other relevant documents.
When it is their turn, Christine will connect the client to Heather’s availability.
Prior to the assessment, Christine will front load Heather crucial information and the main focus of the assessment during their regular meeting.*
Heather will see the client for 1-3 sessions.
Heather will discuss her findings, recommendations, and suggestions with Christine.
Christine will synthesize this information and deliver it in ways that are useful, relevant, and clear to the family. This can be verbal and/or written. This information will also be integrated into her ongoing service and approach.
*Service Limitation
- Heather will not offer any written documents or reports for this service.
- Parents cannot attend these regular meetings between Heather and Christine, nor can they be filmed due to confidentiality. The two would be going through dozens of the shared cases very efficiently and rapidly. Nevertheless, this is cost-effective for the families because there is no additional cost for client discussion that is shorter than 15 minutes. Christine can access Heather for periodic updates and troubleshooting without additional cost.
- Heather will not offer ongoing SLP services to Christine’s client but, if needed, Christine can advocate for additional sessions for specific issues that need exploration and troubleshooting.
- Heather has allotted specific time for the assessments and these spots are during school hours.
- Heather will not attend IEP. Christine, as the lead consultant, will do so on behalf of Heather.
- Heather will not be able to offer ongoing individual sessions after the consultation.
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