For parents
You do not need to become the therapist.
Your role is smaller and more useful: understand the goal, practise it briefly in real life, and tell us what happened.
Consultation and assessment fees are explained before booking.
Our open-door approach
Families are part of the session, not visitors to it.
We follow an open-door approach. When it is appropriate, you can sit in on your child’s session, take part, or watch. There is no fixed five- or ten-minute limit: how much you join depends on your child, what feels comfortable for your family, and what your therapist advises. Sometimes a child settles and does their best work with a parent nearby. Sometimes a child is more distracted with family present, and everyone does better if you wait outside for part of the session. Your therapist will talk this through with you, and you can change your mind as the weeks go on.
Being there is not only about seeing what we do. It is how the work travels home. When you watch a therapist respond to your child, you can try the same response in the middle of an ordinary day, at meals, at bath time, on the way to school. Therapy usually becomes more useful when families can carry it beyond the therapy room. That is why we treat your participation as part of the care, not an exception to it.
Your part in the plan
Bring the child you know. Take home one manageable next step.
You see your child across meals, dressing, school runs, play, and difficult evenings. That context helps a therapist choose goals that matter outside the clinic and notice progress that a weekly session might miss.
Anything to practise should be shown to you first, explained in plain language, and kept small enough to fit the day. You can then report what worked, what felt awkward, and what needs changing.
One small example
Practising “help” while getting dressed
- Choose one familiar moment. Use the same zip or shoe the therapist has discussed with you.
- Pause before stepping in. Give your child a brief chance to look, gesture, make a sound, use a word, or try the movement.
- Respond, then stop. Help when they communicate or attempt the step. Repeat only as advised, so practice stays calm and brief.
This is an illustration, not a plan for every child. Your therapist should tailor the prompt, timing, and goal.
Parent coaching
Parent coaching is part of the therapy, not an add-on.
Most of the progress happens in the small moments you already have with your child.
Coaching is built into the work: your therapist shows you how to respond, wait, model a word, or step back in ways that fit your child. You practise it in your own routines.
Where a named programme fits, we use it. Hanen’s More Than Words and TalkAbility are parent programmes some of our clinicians are trained in, and we also use in-house coaching modules shaped around your child’s goals. Your therapist will explain which approach suits your child, and why.
Coaching may also include how to slow speech, wait for communication, praise effort, or respond before a meltdown, and it is usually woven into the child’s work rather than sold as a standard add-on. Clinicians may draw on Hanen programmes, PECS, SO SAFE, Sensory Integration, Social Thinking, Makaton, Play Therapy, Oral Placement Therapy, Handwriting Without Tears, Therapeutic Listening, and Learning to Learn where relevant. The team explains what fits your child, and named approaches are not a menu.
Recommended resource
An optional resource: Walnut Early Supports
Optional, and clearly not a Cornerstone programme.
Walnut Early Supports is a digital platform providing engaging, evidence-informed therapy and inclusive-education resources for children, therapists, educators and parents. Its materials cover language, speech, cognition, reading, social-emotional skills and fluency, and it is built by speech-language pathologists in India.
Where it fits, our therapists select materials based on your child. Suggested resources can be useful for carryover at home between sessions, because practising in ordinary daily life is what helps therapy travel beyond the therapy room.
It is one recommended resource, not a Cornerstone programme, and nothing changes in your child’s plan if you decide not to use it. Explore it at walnutearlysupports.com.
When a family subscribes through the practice, Cornerstone receives a small percentage.
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Call +91 70225 30530 during working hours, or write to us. Bring the routine that is hardest at home.
Consultation and assessment fees are explained before booking.