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ontinue the visit anyway and plan to use lots of hand sanitizer when you get in your car?<\/p>\nYou’ve been in a home working with a family for about 15 minutes when the child’s older brother walks into the room, sneezes on you, and sits on your lap. The child feels like he has a fever, has very runny nose and is coughing. The mother tells you that he’s been sick since yesterday and that the child you see started running a fever this morning but she didn’t want to cancel on you at the last minute.<\/p>\n
Do you continue the visit anyway and plan to use lots of hand sanitizer when you get in your car?<\/p>\n
Do you tell the mother that you have to leave and reschedule the visit for another time?<\/p>\n
Today is the first of a series of posts about real-life scenarios that early interventionists face. I’m hoping that you will weigh in on how you would handle (or have handled) this scenario!<\/p>\n
What would you do?? Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You’ve been in a home working with a family for about 15 minutes when the child’s older brother walks into the room, sneezes on you, and sits on your lap. The child feels like he has a fever, has very runny nose and is coughing. The mother tells you that he’s been sick since yesterday and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[139,12,14,19],"tags":[31,46,50,58,59,62,68,79,86,87,95,112,125],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-intervention-visits","category-practical-strategies-for-intervention","category-what-would-you-do","tag-challenges","tag-development","tag-early-intervention","tag-families","tag-family-centered-practices","tag-home-visits","tag-infants","tag-natural-environment","tag-parent-professional-partnership","tag-parents","tag-relationships","tag-strategies","tag-toddlers","clearfix"],"yoast_head":"\n