Parent questionnaire - typing in pdf or writing?

[Anonymous]

What are others doing for the parent questionnaire? The fillable pdf leaves little room for examples, but I'm not sure my writing is legible enough. Does anyone have other strategies for completing this form?

TIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are others doing for the parent questionnaire? The fillable pdf leaves little room for examples, but I'm not sure my writing is legible enough. Does anyone have other strategies for completing this form?

TIA.

Pick a single example, the most impactful one, and describe it in a few sentences. I typed this in Mac's Preview app, which has a reasonable font size for both fitting information and being legible.

I don't really know what I'm doing, but my AART reviews files for parents on request and always told me my examples were helpful and provided a well-rounded picture of my kids.

[Anonymous]

If they sent you a fillable PDF, use the fillable PDF.

I cannot convey the absolute rage I am filled with when I send a fillable PDF and receive a photo of a printed PDF with hand writing on it. Just don't. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they sent you a fillable PDF, use the fillable PDF.

I cannot convey the absolute rage I am filled with when I send a fillable PDF and receive a photo of a printed PDF with hand writing on it. Just don't. Seriously.

You might need some Xanax. The instructions say to type in the form or hand write. Geez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they sent you a fillable PDF, use the fillable PDF.

I cannot convey the absolute rage I am filled with when I send a fillable PDF and receive a photo of a printed PDF with hand writing on it. Just don't. Seriously.

If you create a fillable PDF that continuously adjusts font size to absurdly enormous and regularly cuts off words, you’ll receive a hand-written version. I’ve been through this process twice and both times I wanted to smash my computer trying to fight the reprogramming on the questionnaire and referral forms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they sent you a fillable PDF, use the fillable PDF.

I cannot convey the absolute rage I am filled with when I send a fillable PDF and receive a photo of a printed PDF with hand writing on it. Just don't. Seriously.

If you create a fillable PDF that continuously adjusts font size to absurdly enormous and regularly cuts off words, you’ll receive a hand-written version. I’ve been through this process twice and both times I wanted to smash my computer trying to fight the reprogramming on the questionnaire and referral forms.

Use different software to fill it then. Depending on how I fill my PDFs I get totally different behavior. A browser, for example, is way worse than actual PDF software.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are others doing for the parent questionnaire? The fillable pdf leaves little room for examples, but I'm not sure my writing is legible enough. Does anyone have other strategies for completing this form?

TIA.

So you can handwrite smaller than the font and spacing the form uses? I doubt you'd fit in more by hand writing than by typing. Just be succinct. You don't need a million examples. Everyone's working with the same space constraints.

[Anonymous]

I don't have the pdf software and the fillable form font is HUGE. You can't even get 3 sentences in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have the pdf software and the fillable form font is HUGE. You can't even get 3 sentences in.

I just downloaded Adobe Reader on my MacBook and had no issue. I have several sentences (maybe 8-10?) in the form. And my handwriting is awful so I need to type, lol.

[Anonymous]

We converted the Parent Questionnaire Form from a PDF to a MS Word document, and typed in our answers in Word (better for formatting and font) and then re-converted to a PDF for submission. Our school's AART told us that as long as all answers were visible and fit within the box and stayed on one page, we could do it this way for ease of typing in the answers without dealing with the weird formatting and text issues. Hope this helps!