Intervention Flashcards
What are the key features of the Coaching model for Early Intervention a.k.a. Primary Coach Approach?
- one member of the team serves as the *coach
- *coaches family in terms of improving parenting competence and confidence as well as promoting child learning and development
What are some of the strategies involved in the Coaching approach?
Show and Share: coach provides an opportunity for parent/caregiver to demonstrate or describe skill
Test Drive It Together: coach demonstrates strategy within an activity and turns it over to parent/caregiver
Leading by Example: coach involves parent/caregiver in the therapy session to provide an example or model for child to follow
To the Point: coach provides direct instruction to parent/caregiver in activity
Guided experiments: coach uses open-ended statement to allow parent/caregiver to engage in predicting outcome
What are some other strategies for the Coach approach?
News Caster: narrate actions of parent/caregiver
Secret Message: coach uses subtle nonverbal cues and prompts to guide parent/caregiver
Fake Out: coach purposely makes a mistake to sabotage an activity for teaching purposes
So What?: coach explains the purposes of the session’s goals, objectives, and activities to parent/caregiver
Making the Connection: coach draws in new information from parents/caregiver to confirm learning and expansion of therapy targets
What are the main components to RBEI (Routine Based Early Intervention)?
RBI - Routine based Interview
Ecomap
Functional Outcomes/Goals
Family Goals
Primary Service Provider
Collaborative Consultation
Support-based home visits
What does the Routine Based Interview help with?
- create a strong relationship with family
- obtain a rich and thick description of child and family functioning
- help families select functional and family outcomes/goals for IFSP
What does the ecomap help with?
- help families identify support systems
- reinforces family-centered approach
- informal supports are big predictors of child and family well-being
- informal supports are the first source when helping families arrive at solutions
What is Everyday Children’s Learning model?
-uses ideas from social system and activity learning theory
-uses everyday family and community opportunities, experiences and events to help young children with disabilities develop everday knowledge and skills
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What are the key components to Everyday Children’s Learning?
- interest based child-learning opportunities
- everyday family and community opportunities
- use of methods and strategies for increasing child participation in interest-based everyday language learning activities
- use of caregiver responsive teaching for supporting and strengthening children’s communication and language
What does DIR stand for?
Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities
Individual Differences
Affective Relationships
What are the different milestones or levels involved in DIR?
- Shared attention and regulation
- Engagement
- Two-way communication
- sustained co-regulation interactions
- creative use of ideas
- logical bringing of ideas
S.E.T.S.C.L
True or False:
There are 6 stages of development for social-emotional development, communication and thinking
True
What does it mean to have “individual differences”?
different ways of reacting to sensory input
different abilities to coordinate movement
different capacities to understand and use language
What does the “relationships” part of DIR refer to?
each child learns through interactions with their parents and other special relationships
each parent has their own style, personality and abilities
we work to suppor that relationship
What is Floortime?
type of free play in which the child can choose and direct the play
parents or teachers join the child in what interests them
parents and teachers challenge the child to expand and extend play
*adult does not direct play
*follow child’s lead
In the first Milestone, it consists of:
Observing interests
Join in their play
Help them feel safe and calm
