Purpose of Mapping:

Mapping is the process of creating a written plan of action to help a parent or professional achieve the best possible future for and with the child or client. Through a process called “discovery”, a written map, or blue print is created to help us to discover and describe what is important to and for the child in everyday life.

Benefits:

• A Mapping notebook to help build markers and goals for a child’s future success.
  
• The Mapping Workbook will help families make decisions at IEPs and other professional meetings or decision making processes.
  
• Provides practical, hands-on tools and strategies for building life and social skills. Readers will gain essential tools they can literally use in the moment to help build upon the plan.
  
• Provides “outside the box” thinking, for doing things not often thought of.
  
• Provides ideas and strategies for using the arts and other alternative tolls to build cognitive, social, and life skills, improve language, self-esteem, and self awareness.

Why the Need to have a plan?

• Have a place where its all written down
  
• Help others to know the child better (used by people who support)
  
• Help with long-term planning and life transitions (e.g. school to work)
  
• Figure out what is important to a person and what types of supports make sense.
  
• Use info to create supports and recruit providers of services
  
• Remind us where we’ve been and where we’re going
  
• Determine a course of action (continually changing) to achieve long- term goals
  
• A just in case plan