How we make our pages

Who writes and reviews

Our guides and printable pages are written by the Doctor Carissa team and published under the brand name, “Doctor Carissa”. Before a page goes live, every claim on it is checked against the sources listed at the end, and a separate review reads it for accuracy and for the rules below.

Carissa Spisak reads the published pages in batches. When she has reviewed a page herself, the page names her and the date. Until then it doesn’t. We never publish under an invented name, and we never say a page was “reviewed by” someone who didn’t review it.

How we use AI tools

• Writing. We use AI writing tools to help research and draft pages. A draft is a starting point: we check it against the sources, rewrite it in plain words and cut anything we can’t support.
• Pictures. Where our printables have illustrations, they start as drafts made with AI image tools. We choose each one, check that it means what its word says, and reject anything unclear. Every file and Etsy listing with these pictures says so. Our photo kits have no AI pictures: you add your own photos.
• Never on its own. Nothing written or drawn by an AI tool is published as it came out: every page and file is checked and reviewed before it goes live.

What we write about, and what we don’t

We write about everyday tools for home: picture schedules, routines, communication boards, memory books and how to set them up and use them. We describe what a printable contains and how people use it, never what it will achieve.

We do not write about diagnosis, prognosis, medication, swallowing safety or when to seek care unless a currently licensed professional has reviewed the page and is named on it with their credential and the review date. Until then, those topics are not on this site.

Sources

Guides list their sources at the end. We prefer professional associations, government health sites and published research, and we link to the original rather than to a summary of it.

Dates

Each guide shows when it was first published and when it was last reviewed. We change the date only when the page really changes, never to make an old page look new.

Reviews and testimonials

We don’t publish testimonials, and we don’t quote reviews that describe what happened to someone after using a printable. Every family is different, and a story about one person is not a promise to another.

Money and independence

Doctor Carissa earns money by selling printables on Etsy. No one pays us to write about their product. If we ever link to a product and earn a commission, the page will say so next to the link.

Corrections

If you find a mistake, email hello@doctorcarissa.com with the page and what is wrong. We read every message, fix real errors quickly, and update the page’s review date when we do.