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Parenting Tips
This is a forum for discussing, sharing and discovering great tips
46 votesHi,
We are working a very cool thing for sharing tips and experiencing with each other.
While you are waiting, we just launched this new way to regularly get fresh tips and ideas and info call Birdhouse Beacon => http://www.birdhousehq.com/beacon/
Check it out and please let us know what you think :)
Adam
~ a birdhouse owl
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Sensory issues
Sensory integration disorder and issues that comes with it.
35 votesYou can now use the category Sensory, either in your list or accessed by using ‘Something Else’
As you add different descriptions of sensory interventions or seeking behaviors or whatever details you are documenting, they will pre-populate.
Then you can graph them in reports, see total counts during different periods, get a review of them sent in your weekly and monthly email summaries, and more.
Let us know what you think and how we can make these more effective for you!
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Include duration for all activities
Please include a way to document a duration (or an end time that calculates the duration) for an activity. Type, scope, duration and frequency of caregiver assessments, judgements, interventions are critical things we track.
32 votesGreat suggestion.
We definitely understand how crucial these pieces are and what a valuable addition to the tool they will be.
It is a big undertaking to properly implement these in a “smart” way so they can be applied to all of the different ways that people use this type of system, but we are working on it right now and it’s going to be a magnificent and empowering solution when we start to roll out these changes.
I wish I could say we’ll have this available right away, but it’s on it’s way. Hopefully what we have is helpful to some degree without them, and I look forward to hearing how you like the solution we come up with when it becomes available.If there’s any way we can help with anythign else, in the interim, of course, always let us know.
:-)
Adam
~ a birdhouse owl
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IEP & FAMILY TEAM MTGS
Great idea to add. Listing details of
1. Goals
2. Grades
3. Behaviors
4.Attended participants
5. Current academic levels
6. Special factors
7.Accomodations
8.Testing
9. Safeguards
10.NotesTo make a grid & be able to add data at ur fingertips.This would be a great Tool to have.
22 votesGreat suggestion!
We will keep these in mind as we continue to evolve the product.
I would love to see an example of what you mean by ‘make a grid and add data’. Do you already have something like this you’d like to be able to do and update with Birdhouse that we could see? How do you do this system?
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Comments
Please add a feature to allow other users (spouse, teacher etc.) to comment on activities posted by other users in the same account.
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Post photos.
We use a lot of visual feedback for my son. It would be great if I could post photos too.
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Tracking Accuracy on a Graph
I am a special education teacher. I would like to be able to have a graph that tracks date vs accuracy for goals.
12 votesExcellent suggestion. Have you played with our current Reports page at all yet?
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In the mood section, I would like to be able to select multiple moods as my son often is multiple moods in different instances.
Option to select multiple moods in one post.
9 votesAbsolutely! Great idea.
This is definitely on our list. We have a few other big things in line ahead of it that I think you’re gonna like, but we will definitely get to this after that. We will update the status here as we get closer, so you know when it’s coming. -
Differentiate current and ended nutrition schedules visually in the nutrition list
When changing the dose for a nutrition, there is a popup that explains how to keep the history by setting an end date for the current dose and creating a new schedule with the new dose.
It would be nice if the lines with end dates in the past had different formatting in the nutrition table.
In the following picture, one of the highlighted lines has an end date in the past and the other one is current, but that is not obvious. Maybe the ended line could be stroke through or colored with a lighter gray to make it…
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It were accessible to Autistic persons who wish to self-regulate.
I'm an Autistic adult who'd like some sort of app that would help me keep track of this sort of thing on my own. Birdhouse is amazing, but sometimes I feel a little condescended by it since it's geared towards parents of Autistic kids.
7 votesThis is great feedback.
I’m so sorry to hear that it gives you a condescending tone.
We started with making the tool focused on adults looking after kids, as that was our personal need and what we knew best. We are trying to do a GREAT job at that before diverting our attention.
That being said, we are also always looking for ways to make changes and learn more about how to accommodate more people who would like to use the tool.
If you would like to send us a private message at owl@birdhousehq.com and share more specifics about what parts make you feel condescended to, how you currently use it that is helpful, and what are some changes we could make that would make it even more helpful, we’d love to hear about it and think about how when can incorporate that feedback into our plan. -
Checklists:)
Developmental checklists by age that can be updated when the child progresses to the next level. This could be helpful to assist in goal writing.
Cognitive
Social/Emotional
Play skills
Academic skills
School readiness skills
Gross Motor
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Need to make it easier to invite collaborators
I'm trying out Birdhouse and it seems like a great idea. However, it's difficult and confusing to invite a collaborator (for me and for them). I'd like to collaborate with my son's nanny, ABA, OT, etc...but I know that if its not super easy for them to use, they won't do it and I'll be stuck trying to elicit and record their notes.
7 votesCollaboration is a newer feature at the moment, and we are currently in the process of making the process of inviting new collaborators more convenient and straightforward. We’re excited to be able to make this more accessible as this year goes on.
–Ben
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Collaborator roles and permissions
I would really like to use this to have my son's care team collaborate more effectively. And, I know that there are some things that I might put in BirdHouse that I would still want private. Could you add in permission levels, either by object (note / file / etc) and/or by user so that I can restrict access to some things?
For example, if I were to keep track of IEP notes, I might not want my actual IEP team to see everything that I have written.
7 votesWe agree, this feature is very important and is something we are currently working to provide. We’ll update this as we make progress on it.
–Ben
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Update website time picker
To expedite the process of tracking events on the website, I would like the default time picker to work in increments of 15 minutes following the pattern in the iOS app.
6 votesThank you for sharing your request. We will take that under consideration in our planning.
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Add activity for more than one person
I would love to be able to add an activity for more than one person at a time, for example, when we all eat a meal together, be able to add it to more than one person at a time instead of having to do them individually.
6 votesGreat suggestion!
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ability to color code the existing activity symbol + customize activity name/symbol
I have ASD child who has poop accidents (not done in the toilet but elsewhere) once every now and then, but there is only one 'poop' symbol to use for both regular poop and poop accident. and this is inconvenient on the report because I can't tell how many times she had poop accidents out of all the poops done within a week or month or etc.. so if there was an option to use different color on the same 'poop' symbol, it'll help us to easily see on the graph where/when she had the poop accident and when she…
5 votesGreat suggestion/feedback.
We are working on a wonderful version of this that I think you are going to love.
In the meantime, one detail that might help you;
In the Reports section, if you select Other and the click the checkbox below that says ‘Show Advanced Filters’, there will be a chart that shows your various types of Other, and you could select just one or two specific ones you wanted graphed/included in your export data, like ‘Poop accident’
I hope this helps.
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More than just Therapists
I'd like a different term for the category "Therapists", maybe Care Team or just Contacts. I would like to keep contact information for everyone involved in my child's care, not just therapists; teachers, caregivers, doctors, etc.
5 votesWe now have some options for doing this.
Shoot us a message at owl@birdhousehq.com if you’d like to change the name of your category and/or any other details.
Adam
~ a birdhouse owl
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Behavioral Tools
Section for CBT and DBT skills
breathing, counting, ABC's, singing, things that the child has been taught to assist in calming down
5 votesYou can now create a category for these things on the More page on the web, and then they will be added to your Activities list, and you can then record what happens and when.
If you have questions, please ask at owl@birdhousehq.com
Adam
~ a birdhouse owl
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Accommodations
Accommodations
5 votes
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