Home Programme Consultancy

What Is Home Programme Consultancy?

Home programme consultancy is a structured service. It turns your child's therapy goals into a plan you can carry out at home, measure and follow regularly. We prepare the programme alongside your child's current therapy.

The aim is not only to learn general techniques. It is to turn them into a concrete plan you can track. For each goal, we set out clearly how to carry it out and how to check progress.

The programme is a supporting layer that completes your child's other therapies, such as autism therapy, ADHD support or learning difficulties support.

A skill gained in the therapy room rarely lasts unless it is repeated consistently at home. So a home programme is best seen as a natural continuation of therapy.

The programme is not a one-off document. It is an ongoing planning process that is updated as your child develops. This way, goals always match your child's current level and needs.

How Is It Different From Parent Guidance?

Our Parent Guidance teaches you general techniques in sessions repeated at regular intervals. Home programme consultancy turns these techniques into a written plan made for your child, which you can track.

In home programme consultancy, each goal has a concrete schedule and a clear way of checking progress. So the service involves closer follow-up than parent guidance.

Some families choose both services together. Parent guidance sets the general approach, and home programme consultancy turns it into a concrete plan.

For example, a family may first talk through how to connect with their child in play during parent guidance. Then, with home programme consultancy, they build this into their daily routine as concrete steps. Together, the two services form one joined-up support.

What Is in the Programme?

A home programme includes a weekly activity plan based on your child's therapy goals. The plan is made up of short, concrete tasks that fit easily into your daily routine.

The programme also includes progress tracking forms. You use them to note your weekly observations briefly. These notes form the basis of the next consultancy meeting.

Some home programmes include visual materials, play cards or simple worksheets. Our specialists prepare these especially for your child's age, interests and developmental level.

Ready-made, general materials often fail to catch a child's interest. So our specialists bring your child's favourite characters, toys or topics into the materials. This boosts your child's involvement and motivation.

The programme also tackles real challenges you face in daily life, not just therapy goals. For example, we can suggest ideas for everyday moments such as grocery shopping, crowded places or the morning routine.

Concrete activities for areas such as sensory regulation, fine motor skills or language support can also be added. They are shaped by your child's individual goals.

If your child is growing up with Turkish and English, we plan the activities around the languages your family uses at home and your child's language profile.

Every child has a different developmental profile, and a general template rarely meets real needs. So our specialists design each programme from scratch, based on your child's own strengths and weaker areas.

The programme is also adapted to your family's daily life, because an unrealistic plan soon becomes impossible to follow. That is why our specialists take your working hours and home routine into account.

How Does Consultancy Work?

Consultancy starts with a first meeting linked to your child's current therapy goals. In this meeting, our specialists listen carefully to your daily routine, your child's interests and the current challenges.

Based on this, they prepare a personal home programme for your child and explain it to you step by step. The programme is made up of concrete, realistic tasks you can do in everyday life.

A plan that is too broad or complicated stops being practical in daily life. So our specialists break the programme into small, manageable steps, in order of priority.

In the first meeting, we also look at any methods you have tried before. Learning from these experiences works better than suggesting an approach that did not work.

At follow-up meetings held at set intervals, we review the programme and update the goals when needed. These meetings take place face to face at our centre. We plan them flexibly around your schedule, within our opening hours.

Your child's pace of development can change over time. A goal may be reached sooner than expected, or take longer. That is why regular follow-up meetings keep the programme up to date.

At each follow-up meeting, our specialists also listen to the difficulties you have faced. Practical obstacles are often hard to foresee at the planning stage.

A goal that makes sense on paper is not always easy to carry out in daily life. So at every follow-up meeting, our specialists check the plan carefully against real life.

We keep regular contact with you throughout, because even a small uncertainty can make it harder to follow the programme correctly. If a question comes up between appointments, let us know, and our specialists will make sure it is covered.

The programme is not a one-way list of instructions. If you notice that a technique is not working, tell our specialists, and you can reshape the programme together.

Every family's home and daily rhythm is different. So it is completely natural for a technique to work in one family and not in another. Our specialists treat this as normal and suggest other ways forward.

How Is Progress Tracked?

You use the weekly tracking form to note, in a few words, how your child responds to the home programme activities. These notes are an important and reliable source of information for our specialists.

Our specialists review this feedback regularly. When needed, they update the goals and reshape the programme around your child's progress. This cycle keeps the programme current and realistic.

Some details are hard to put into writing. So at follow-up meetings at the centre, our specialists may also watch you and your child do an activity together. This makes their feedback more precise and easier to apply.

At the end of each meeting, you receive a short written summary, so you can easily remember the steps at home. This summary is also the starting point for the next meeting.

Progress tracking covers the skills your child has gained, not only the difficulties. Our specialists help you notice these gains, which keeps motivation high.

Home Programmes in English

Many families we work with live in Istanbul and speak English at home. They include expat, international and mixed-nationality families. Home programme consultancy is fully available in English.

• Consultancy in English: the first meeting, follow-up meetings and your written summaries.
• Bilingual Turkish-English sessions for your child, planned around their language profile.
• Family meetings and progress updates in English.
• In person in Istanbul: meetings and your child's 40-minute sessions take place at our centre in Beykent, Büyükçekmece, Monday to Saturday, 09:00 to 18:00.

Many children hear one language at home and another at school or nursery. We plan home activities around the languages your family actually uses, so the programme fits your daily life. Our Bilingual Children page explains more.

For our address and directions, see our Contact page.

Who Is It For?

This service suits families who want to support their child's development at home in a more structured way. It fits families looking for regular follow-up and concrete, measurable goals.

It is especially helpful when the number of therapy sessions is limited. Home programme consultancy helps keep the gains from the therapy room going at home.

Whatever the number of sessions, your child spends most of the day at home. A home programme spreads limited therapy time across daily life and increases its effect.

Consultancy meetings take place face to face at our centre in Beykent. So the service suits families who live in Istanbul and can visit the centre regularly, for example from Büyükçekmece, Beylikdüzü, Bahçeşehir, Avcılar, Silivri, Esenyurt or Çatalca.

It also helps families with more than one child who want to use their time well, because each goal has a clear practical step set in advance. This makes daily planning much easier.

Uncertainty is often what tires families most. A clear plan helps you put your energy in the right place. It also makes the whole process less tiring from start to finish.