Early Intervention For Young Children

The therapist may choose to focus on children who struggle with fine-motor activities, such as holding a pencil or tying shoelaces. Other pediatric occupational therapists specialize in sensory integration therapy. The role of the occupational therapist is to help patients improve or maintain skills for day-to-day activities and well-being, but more importantly, to provide hope and support in a time of

In the video ‘Early Intervention: The Missing Link’ a presumably deaf woman explains how confident deaf people are, how they are not disabled, and how doctors should be more sensitive with families of deaf children. However, I think this is not only a presumptuous point of view, but also a fine example of how political correctness is slowly taking over society.

In the article “Why Early Intervention Matters”, the author Douglas Jacobs gives a statistical analysis of the amount of mental illness and substance use disorders there are in America and introduces a type of recovery called Screening. He gives an interesting insight on the amount of people that deal with these struggles, and properly explains how they can effect one’s life. He explains the extremity of certain disorders and makes the reader aware of the importance of recovery. Mental health screening has recently been created to help people recognize and treat substance abuse and mental illness’s. It has been proven that screening, when timed properly, can prevent the development of substance use disorders.

Chapter eight is about promoting communication and language development in early childhood education. Early communication is mostly non-verbal. Communication goes beyond the words we use; it develops with the use of gestures, facial expressions, hand movements and positioning of our body. Some of the first displays of communication by infants include, smiling, fussing and looking at an area, person or object. Later, communication extends to give signals such as pointing, reaching and body movements to indicate a want or need. The primary functions of early communication are behavior regulation, social interaction, and calling joint attention. Students with visual impairment and other disabilities are at risk for developing communication and

Occupational therapists help children make of sensory experiences involving sights, smells, touch, sounds, tastes and movement. Children with learning disabilities or autism may experience serious difficulties processing, understanding and reacting to sensory stimulation. The ability of these children to process sensory information may impacted by either hypersensitivity or hyposensitivity to stimulation. Many children who engage in problematic behaviors or anti-social tendencies may actually be experiencing difficulties processing and understanding sensory information and their environment. Occupational therapists use observation and data collection to create a plan that addresses and rectify specific behaviors.

Early childhood assessment is constantly developing appropriate practices in many ways. Teachers have to identify the child’s developmental

This agency is facing a number of extensive issues, among them, misconduct and lack of accountability. The problems within this department have extended outside of the agency concerning the mayor, city council, and the community members. This agency needs to show its community that it is dedicated to serving and protecting the public with the utmost honor and respect for the law. As a consultant for this agency, I have outlined a plan of action that will deal with the crucial problems within this department including the misconduct, the lack of accountability, high turnover rate, as well as how to inform the media on the new positive changes this office will undergo.

Also, Feil, et.al (2014) suggested the First Step intervention program. This program will help to reduce behavioral problems before entering school. However, the study showed that child assigned to the Preschool First Step intervention had significantly higher social skills, and significantly fewer behavior

Early intervention plays a prominent role in children with intellectual disabilities. Daycares often notice any risk that a child may show early one. Being around children their own age and noticing a child is not at a certain milestone or close to the milestone should be brought to the parent’s attention. At this point the parents can watch and see if the see the signs at home and bring the information or concern to the child’s medical Doctor as soon as possible. Often times the daycare facilities have personal that will work with child while they are they and will help in the transition to the public school system when age appropriate. This a huge factor in keeping children on their upward path. At the public school they will have an IEP that is for that child only. In the IEP it will state what services the child will need to reach their education goal.

For infants and toddlers with severe disabilities, the early years of development were crucial to attain optimal development (Guralnick, 2000), with an important factor the parent-child relationship. The parent(s) are the first person the child interacts with (Aydin & Yamac, 2014), continually shaping his or her social, emotional, communicative, and cognitive abilities (Landry et al., 2006, as cited in Warren & Brady, 2007, pp. 300). Conducive to this outcome, maternal responsivity and positive parenting (Dyches et al., 2012) should be key characteristics of parent-child

The YouTube video I found, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iHuP7JkjWM is called Children’s Occupational Therapy. The video not only addresses how the OT conducts the evaluation and intervention process, but also OT within a setting with a social emphasis and a setting with a biological emphasis. The video demonstrates how the OT can come into the home within a biological setting and look at all aspects of development in order to see what skills are causing the child difficulty. The OT in home health care looks to see if skills are compensated because of medical issues. OT’s within home health care can work on sensory skills that cause difficulties in occupational performance at home. The parents of one of the children in the video, Ben, explained

Four year olds are still very much learning through the use of their senses (Blaustein, 2005). As well, some children may have special needs concerning sensory processing and integration (Ayers, 1994). Children with sensory processing disorders range from over-responsive, under-responsive, to sensory craving (Ayers, 1994). Nonetheless, every person encounters a plethora of sensory stimuli each day and must take in information and integrate it with prior knowledge to make meaningful responses (Ayers, 1994). Multisensory centers provide young children with and without special needs with the opportunity to seek out sensory stimulation, acquire sensory integration and motor skills, learn coping skills, and understand basic scientific concepts (Blaustein, 2005).

This is important because these sensory deficits present occupational barriers for both child and caregiver's ability to engage in meaningful activities. There is mixed empirical research regarding the effectiveness of sensory based interventions due to the variability in the symptomatology of children with sensory deficits. However and in spite of the sparse supporting evidence it is used in many occupational therapy settings because it has been shown to be effective in individualized clinical treatment plan and in less rigorous studies. AOTA has launched an initiative across all occupational therapy domains to increase the use of evidence based practice. The triangulation process used in this qualitative inquiry is designed to make the data collection process more robust (Portney & Watkins, 2009). Thus adding to the growing base of evidence supporting the use of sensory based interventions in occupational therapy

Early intervention is a process which involves stepping into a child’s life as soon as possible to tackle problems. ‘Early’ does not necessarily mean at an early age but in this case it refers more to the stage in the development of a child’s problems. Early intervention is important as the earlier a problem is identified; the more likely it is that the problem can be corrected before serious consequences arise, sometimes resulting in a child’s death (Mahoney 2007, p-3).

This research report presents an analysis of and conclusions drawn from the experiences and perspectives of two educators that work in the early childhood setting. The main objective is to identify key elements and issues in relation to the families, diversity and difference. In particular how an early childhood educator implements, different approaches to honour culture and diversity, and to advocate for social justice in an early childhood settings. As such, it allows an insight into the important role that families and their background plays in the everyday lives of the children and educators within early childhood settings. In today’s ever-changing growing society it is essential for educators to be flexible to the