What Does Cotreat Mean?

Do you know what "cotreat" means? If you have ever wondered what that means, this video is for you. In this video I explain what cotreating is and I give three examples across private practice and school-based settings where I have cotreated with occupational therapists (OTs). First I discuss working with a young client simultaneously with the OT while the client was on a large swing in a gross motor room of a private practice. Then I talk about the two ways I cotreated in two different schools. In one school I pushed into the autism room with the OT and we planned whole group lessons around cooking. In the last example I talk about how I pushed into an intensive kindergarten class with the OT where we would use the smart board for a whole group lesson and then break up into rotating centers (one was for speech, one was for OT, and the other was a skill related to the classroom). The theme was cohesive and carried through in each center. There are many ways to successfully collaborate as an SLP with an OT to meet our client's needs.