Maintaining accurate medical records on your child is a must. However, record keeping tends to become more difficult when the child has a condition such as cerebral palsy. This is because children with special needs spend more time at the doctor’s office and often see multiple specialists.

Organizing medical records can help you give your child the best care possible. It will allow you to provide doctors with an accurate timeline of diagnoses, treatments and procedures your child has undergone, and in this way, you can help your child’s medical providers coordinate their efforts.

So how do you keep track of your child’s medical history? In the current issue of Parenting Special Needs online magazine, one mother shares the secrets that have worked for her.  The article even includes a downloadable PDF for recording the contact information of your child’s providers.

If you haven’t already developed a record keeping system of your own, this looks like a good place to find some useful advice and get started.

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