Impact On Myself And T's Parents

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Throughout the PCTS process, not only have I seen an impact on T, but also an impacted both myself and T’s parents. When I began this process, I seen T as an extremely sweet child, with problems controlling himself during times of distress, that’s no longer what I see when I look at T. I see T as an extremely brilliant child, a child who is only two, but is able to begin using his words in order to express the way he is feeling. T is a child who at times needs support, but is now able to ask for it, but first attempt to solve the problem on his own. While I did have trouble contacting his parents at first, after sitting down to interview them, I quickly came to realize that my preconceived notions were anything but true. T’s parents world revolves

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