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<\/h2>\nYou’re\u00a0on an intervention visit and the mother asks you if you also work with her neighbor’s child. She says she’s\u00a0noticed your car in their driveway and goes on to tell you\u00a0what she knows about that family. Or maybe you’re talking\u00a0with a friend of yours who mentions a family who is in your program.<\/p>\n
<\/h2>\nDo you spill the beans because this mother obviously already knows that you work with her neighbor?<\/p>\n
Do you go ahead and tell your friend because you know you can trust her?<\/p>\n
Or do you politely decline to answer? How do you say that you can’t talk about other families? What words do you use to protect confidentiality and explain this boundary\u00a0when this question arises?<\/p>\n
Protecting each family’s confidentiality is very important, not only because it’s a requirement under Part C of IDEA, FERPA and many agencies’ policies. A child’s intervention is a very private matter for families and we need to be sure that our words, actions and interactions respect that.<\/p>\n
Share how you’ve handled this situation and the reaction that inevitably comes when you decline to share the information. What would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You’re\u00a0on an intervention visit and the mother asks you if you also work with her neighbor’s child. She says she’s\u00a0noticed your car in their driveway and goes on to tell you\u00a0what she knows about that family. Or maybe you’re talking\u00a0with a friend of yours who mentions a family who is in your program. What do […]<\/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":[31,39,48,50,59,62,112],"class_list":["post-323","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-confidentiality","tag-early-childhood","tag-early-intervention","tag-family-centered-practices","tag-home-visits","tag-strategies","clearfix"],"yoast_head":"\n