The Complete Guide to Managing the Summer Therapy Gap

Parents have been handed a maintenance plan and a wave goodbye. What they haven't been handed is a realistic framework for the next 8 weeks — one that accounts for who actually executes it, what environment it gets executed in, and what happens when it doesn't go as planned. This guide is that framework. It covers what's actually at risk by service type, a week-by-week structure a real parent can run, what degrades fastest by skill domain, how to communicate with your provider before summer ends (and how to document so September's re-entry is faster), and a triage protocol for when things spike mid-summer. If you're already in the summer gap, start with Section 3. If you have a week left before your child's last session, start with Section 4. Either way — you now have a map.