Generalisation
A skill working outside the place it was taught — with a different adult, in a different room, on a different day. A skill that only appears in the therapy room has not generalised, and is not yet useful.
Why generalisation matters.
This is why we do most of our work in your child's actual school and actual home rather than in a clinic. A skill is not learned when it appears once under ideal conditions with the person who taught it; it is learned when it survives a substitute teacher, a noisy hall and a bad night's sleep.
It is also the most common place for a programme to quietly stall. Session data can look excellent for months while nothing at all changes at home, and nobody notices because nobody is measuring at home.
Questions that get a real answer
- Where has this skill been seen, apart from in session?
- Who else has seen it, and when?
- What is being done deliberately to move it?
Ask these of anyone, including us. What you are listening for is not the right answer — it is whether the answer is specific enough to be wrong.
Terms that usually turn up alongside it.
IEP
The school's own written plan for a child — targets, provision and review dates. Outside support should work
GlossaryIntensity
How much support, how often. The number most commonly inflated in this sector, which is why our
GlossaryKHDA
The authority regulating private schools in Dubai. It publishes an inclusive education policy framework and
Send it to us and we'll translate it.
Any report, from any provider, including ones we have nothing to do with. We will tell you in plain English what it says, what it recommends, and which parts are actually supported by the evidence in it. No charge, and it does not make you a client.