What is Early Intervention? “Early intervention is a program formed to help infants and toddlers with developmental delays and disabilities (Overview of Early Intervention).” How does early intervention help children? Early intervention is a program designed to help improve children’s developmental delays and disabilities such as not being able to roll over or walk or talk by the time frame that it is expected. Early intervention also helps with children that have physical disabilities such as cleft lip and palate that will impair their speech or cerebral palsy that affects many things like speech and the ability to walk. “Children with more severe disabilities tend to have a constant rate of improvement regardless when they start (Malone,
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Families that have children with disabilities may have to do things differently or may be unable to do things because of the delay or disability but this is what early intervention is for. The parent should always be involved in everything that the early intervention worker is working on with the child so that when the worker is not there the parent can continue to work with the child to make improvements. “Researchers have provided evidence for the importance of a family-focused approach to intervention (Davis, K., & Gavidia-Payne, S. (2009).” “Dunst and colleagues (2007) conducted a meta-analysis of 47 studies and found that relational and participatory help-giving practices were associated with positive parent, family, and child outcome (Davis, K., & Gavidia-Payne, S. (2009).” With these facts it is clearly shown that the more the parents are involved the better it is for the family and child and the more improvements that are able to be made. In some situations the parents may not want to be involved some parents think that this is just going to be a solution to the problem, but without the reinforcement from the parents there won’t be much improvement shown. The early intervention worker should always fully explain everything to the parents like what they are writing about the child or what they are seeing is happening, if a parent does not understand something then it won’t be helpful, the more that everyone is one the same
Families that have children with disabilities may have to do things differently or may be unable to do things because of the delay or disability but this is what early intervention is for. The parent should always be involved in everything that the early intervention worker is working on with the child so that when the worker is not there the parent can continue to work with the child to make improvements. “Researchers have provided evidence for the importance of a family-focused approach to intervention (Davis, K., & Gavidia-Payne, S. (2009).” “Dunst and colleagues (2007) conducted a meta-analysis of 47 studies and found that relational and participatory help-giving practices were associated with positive parent, family, and child outcome (Davis, K., & Gavidia-Payne, S. (2009).” With these facts it is clearly shown that the more the parents are involved the better it is for the family and child and the more improvements that are able to be made. In some situations the parents may not want to be involved some parents think that this is just going to be a solution to the problem, but without the reinforcement from the parents there won’t be much improvement shown. The early intervention worker should always fully explain everything to the parents like what they are writing about the child or what they are seeing is happening, if a parent does not understand something then it won’t be helpful, the more that everyone is one the same