It's now week 6 into the growing sunflowers project. Your team has successfully started the project, the children are enjoying watching the seeds sprout and come to life and are very enthusiastic about checking to see how high they've grown each day. A few of the pre-school parents have commented on how interested their children have become in gardening.
Sasha has been the appointed project champion for the duration and up until last week, was very involved and enthusiastic.
This week, educators have commented that Sasha seems unmotivated to go outside, has been often unfocused during one-on-one conversations and generally seems listless or reluctant to do anything physical during the day. They have noticed that Sasha has more frequent periods of speech impairment and requires two people now to assist in most manual handling tasks, as Sasha is struggling to move her upper body or hold her head up for periods of time during the day.
You call Cassie and ask if she has time to discuss how Sasha is going when she comes for this afternoon's pick-up. Cassie is more than happy to come in a little earlier than normal so that you can spend 15 minutes or so together.
In preparation for your meeting with Cassie, prepare what information you'd like to share with her and how you'd like to say it. (i.e., Sasha's recent struggles with movement and lack of motivation.)

Write a paragraph on what you would say to Cassie to communicate the latest observations. In your response be empathetic to Sasha's and the family's situation, honest, factual and objective.  

Please provide three (3) open questions you'd ask. These questions need to effectively gather sufficient information to enable collaboration with key stakeholders and plan possible supports or referrals for Cassie and Sasha.

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