Week 1-2 Flashcards
Define IFSP
Individualized Family Service Plan
Define IDEA
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Part B: Services for School-age children (3-21)
-Goal: reduce the impact of disabilities so that child can succeed in their education
Part C: Services for Toddlers and Infants (birth-36 months)
-Eligibility is determined by state guidelines
-Goal is to reduce the impact of disability so that infant/toddler can increase participation in life activities
SLP roles in early intervention
Three levels
-Primary
-Secondary
-Tertiary
SLP roles in early intervention
Screening
-Identify individual in need of further assessment
SLP roles in early intervention
Assessment
-ongoing procedures conducted by qualified personnel to identify the unique strengths and areas of needs of a child, and the early intervention services appropriate to meet those needs throughout the period of the child’s eligibility
SLP roles in early intervention
Evaluation
-procedures carried out by qualified personnel to determine a child’s initial and continuing eligibility
SLP roles in early intervention
Planning, implementation, and monitoring intervention
-Intervention leads to a change in behavior that may not have occurred without the intervention
SLP roles in early intervention
Planning, implementation, and monitoring intervention
Consultation/Education of others
-Provide all team members, families and other professionals with necessary information
SLP roles in early intervention
Planning, implementation, and monitoring intervention
Service coordination
-Ensuring that communication is happening between collaborating professionals and families involved
-Might involve securing referrals for the child
-Can be primary service
SLP roles in early intervention
Transition Planning
SLP roles in early intervention
Advocacy
SLP roles in early intervention
Advancing knowledge base in EI
Be able to approximate prevalence of top 3 childhood disabilities
ASD (1 in 54)
Developmental Language Disorder (1 in 12)
Late talkers (1 in 7)
Developmental Delay (1 in 6)
Be able to list and define types of services models
Direct
-clinician directly works with the child
Indirect
-Family-centered services - training the family to provide services
Child-centered
-clinician arranges activities so that opportunities for client to provide target responses occur as a natural part of play and interaction
Child-centered
Who is it beneficial for?
-Advantages for obstinate and uncommunicative children because language is built into our everyday world, and they are exposed to helpful language models of the clinician in a way that is easy to absorb
Child-centered
-No prompts or fixing incorrect responses
Child-centered
Language facilitation/Indirect language stimulation/facilitative play
-attempts to provide an accessible model of the mapping between child’s actions and the language that describes them; tempts the child to talk. Responsivity is key; providing more mature models in the child’s zone of proximal development
-imitate the child