Speech therapists: plan weekly sessions for children

After-school hours are the most wanted in a speech therapy practice, and children do best with the same time every week. Juggling those hours by phone with every family is a weekly puzzle. With Book, you give each child a fixed weekly time and book their sessions yourself from your list, while your public page shows only the slots open for new assessments.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description, all shown on your public page. Each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity.

Durations are examples: set your own according to your practice and the rules that apply to you.

Once you agree a weekly time with a family, book the child's sessions yourself from your bookings list, for example until the next school holiday. First and last name are enough; use the parent's email so they get a confirmation with a calendar file for each session. Book doesn't send reminders, so those files keep the time in the family's calendar.

You create every slot. Don't open public slots in the after-school hours you keep for weekly children; open them only for assessments at set times. Slots repeat weekly on the weekdays you choose until an end date.

Book sessions term by term and leave out the holiday weeks. Before each new term, book the next run of sessions from your list. If you offer holiday sessions at different times, families can book those as a separate service.

Put the child's name in the booking and the parent's email and phone, so the right person gets the calendar file and you can reach them. If two parents share care, agree which email to use. Ask parents not to write health details in notes, since notes appear in calendar files.

Children get ill and school trips happen. Families can't move or cancel online: they contact you, and you move or cancel the session from your list. State your notice policy in the description. Rescheduling works across services, so a missed weekly session can move to another time you offer.

A short meeting with parents each term helps. Create a parent meeting service, or book it yourself at the end of a session.

Book has one booking page per business and no staff field. In a shared practice, create services per therapist, so each child's sessions stay with their therapist.

Book doesn't store records, take payments or send reminders. Your bookings sync with Google, iPhone or Mac calendars. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.