[Aleesha's mother meets with Aleesha's early childhood intervention service worker, the centre director, and the senior early childhood educator.]

MOTHER: It seems to me quite obvious that Aleesha needs one-on-one supervision all the time and I do think she needs a different program from the other kids. She has different needs. She's used to different things. And it would be really good if there was a space that she and her worker could go off to if she got distressed, they could have some timeout. What do we do? How do we make that happen? 
SERVICE WORKER: I'm not sure that's going to be the best solution for Aleesha's environment. If you want to exclude her from activities and have an individual program, it will put at risk her chance of feeling like she belongs, making friends and achieving your long-term goals for her. 
EDUCATOR: Before the incident, though, today, Aleesha was just going so well. It was only when Lisa - her friend she was playing with - went off for fruit break and Aleesha didn't understand the instruction or the change in routine or why Lisa took off for fruit break. So it must have seemed quite odd to her. 
MOTHER: OK, then, maybe not a different program. What do you suggest? 
DIRECTOR: I'd like to try to persevere with our original plans as much as we possibly can. I've asked the staff to come in early tomorrow morning so we can go through those plans and make sure that everyone is clear on what those plans are and I would also like to train the whole staff on how we're using the visual cues with Aleesha. 
MOTHER: Yeah, alright, I don't think that's enough because she really does need someone with her all the time. 
DIRECTOR: She is getting full-time supervision. All the children do. It's just not one-on-one. But what we can do there is I think when it comes to changing activities, we could ask Lianne to talk to Aleesha first and to prepare her so that she understands when the rest of the children get the general instruction. 
SERVICE WORKER: I think that will be a good strategy to develop Aleesha's independence for her to feel like she's more part of the group. 
DIRECTOR: Lianne, you've been jotting down some notes while we've been talking. Would you like to put them up on the whiteboard? 
LIANNE: Yeah, certainly. 
DIRECTOR: Then we can go through all those suggestions, talk about the pros and the cons before we decide what we go ahead with doing. Would that be OK? 
MOTHER: Fire away.