Describe your school or program. Makeform creates a parent questionnaire covering the child's strengths, communication, routines, access needs, and accommodations, ready to review and adapt.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it to your setting, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Parents of newly enrolled students
Format
Multi-section questionnaire with conditional follow-ups
Prompt size
349 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Multi-section questionnaire with conditional follow-ups
Child's preferred name, grade, strengths, and interests
How does your child communicate needs and choices?
Which situations may require additional support?
What accommodations have helped your child participate?
Optional support plan or reference document
Suggested routing tags
Classroom planning
Follow-up requested
Accessibility review
Ask about what helps the child participate, not only about labels. Practical details give staff a clearer starting point for planning.
Step 1
Invite
share a clear parent questionnaire
Step 2
Understand
collect strengths, routines, and support context
Step 3
Review
route follow-ups to the appropriate coordinator
Step 4
Plan
prepare accommodations with the family
Family-centered intake
Give parents space to describe the whole child while collecting practical context for staff.
Lead with interests, successful routines, and preferred communication rather than only difficulties or labels.
Use conditional paths for transportation, meals, mobility, personal care, or activities.
Tag planning calls and accessibility reviews for the responsible coordinator.
Adaptable by setting
Keep a consistent core profile, then adapt questions to the participation setting.
Cover transitions, communication, classroom access, and effective accommodations.
Ask about activities, schedule changes, meals, trips, and equipment.
Offer a meeting request and preferred contact field for detailed context.
Identify changes without making families repeat the entire intake.
Questionnaire workflow
Generate a structured draft, then review its language and routing with your team.
Name the age group, activities, facilities, reviewers, and decisions the answers should support.
Use specific participation questions, remove unneeded fields, and mark optional details clearly.
Show relevant follow-ups, allow optional documents, and include an open context field.
Notify the coordinator, flag meeting requests, and explain the next step.
Choose the right intake method
The form organizes starting context; it does not replace collaborative planning.
Field guide
Tailor these six sections to your setting and staff responsibilities.
Strengths and interests
Ask what the child enjoys and wants adults to understand so staff can build rapport.
Communication
Cover preferred methods and practical cues without assuming one approach works for everyone.
Routines and transitions
Ask what staff can do before and during arrivals, transitions, and schedule changes.
Access and participation
Name the spaces and activities, then ask about access, equipment, noise, movement, and breaks.
Accommodations
Invite useful accommodations, tools, staff approaches, and topics for discussion.
Follow-up context
Collect contact preferences and optional documents, then name the reviewer and follow-up path.
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Open toolFAQ
Answers for coordinators preparing parent intake.
It is a structured way for a parent or caregiver to explain a child's strengths, communication, routines, participation needs, and accommodations. A school or program can use the response as context for follow-up and collaborative planning, rather than treating the form as a complete assessment.
Ask what the child enjoys, how they communicate, what helps with transitions, which spaces or activities may need planning, and what accommodations have worked before. Include an open context field and a clear way to request a conversation. Only collect details your staff has a defined reason to use.
Lead with strengths and preferences, connect questions to participation, and let families describe the child in their own words. Avoid making a diagnosis a substitute for practical context. Explain why information is requested, make optional questions visible, and review labels with your community before publishing.
Yes. Conditional logic can reveal a transportation follow-up only when transport support is selected, or activity questions only for swimming, field trips, meals, or overnight attendance. This keeps the questionnaire shorter while still gathering relevant detail.
Yes. Add an optional file upload for a plan or reference document the family chooses to share. State who will review uploads and provide another path for families who prefer a meeting or cannot upload a file.
No. The questionnaire organizes initial family-provided context and can help staff prepare focused questions. Use the response to support, not replace, the conversations and processes your school or program is responsible for conducting.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge; it does not unlock additional response capacity.
Responses appear in the Makeform inbox. You can also send notifications or connect a workflow to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier. Set routing so a named coordinator reviews meeting requests, accommodation details, and incomplete answers instead of sending sensitive context broadly.
Prepare for a better family conversation.
