Parent Implemented Intervention

Early intervention, at its core, is “services provided to infants and toddlers who are at risk for, or showing signs of developmental delays” (Coleman, 1993). The intervention is individualized for each child and family and their specific needs. Thus, when the service providers work with the families, they can “create optimal environments for language learning” (Moeller, et. al., 2013). Research shows that language of routines and joint attention are two successful evidence based practices families and interventionist can use with children who are d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Joint attention relates to “the eliciting and directing of another person’s attention to an object for mutual engagement with the object,” (Tasker, Nowakowski, & Schmidt, 2010) while language of routines emphases the idea that “when a child is familiar with routines, the interventionist can focus on scaffolding new and more complex learning” and language (Vygotsky as cited in Jennings, Hanline & Woods, 2012). By utilizing both methods of interventions in a child’s natural environment, their language will flourish.

There, I had the privilege of seeing an Early-Intervention Speech Therapist work with one of my students. She would sit on the floor and play games with him. Through these games, she was able to elicit verbalization from this child who normally grunted to communicate. Over a course of a year, I witnessed his communication skills enhance little-by-little with the assistance of this therapist. I had not realized how much he had improved until I saw him interacting with his friends at the dress-up center. This little boy who would once play alone on the floor was now requesting different objects and laughing with his friends. Recollecting his progress was phenomenal. Inspired by what I saw, I researched more about the field. While doing so, my mother disclosed to me that she and her father had an articulation disorder. Although my grandfather did not receive services, my mother received therapy in school, which she recalls as an unpleasant experience. Taking into account all that I witnessed and learned about the subject, I realized that I had found the middle ground between teacher and therapist that I had been searching for in Speech-Language Pathology.

The participants consisted of 43 preschoolers with verbalization and sound disorders between the ages of four and five. The participants were selected through clinical recommendations in upstate New York from May 2007 to April 2008. Children were primarily from middle

Speech, language and communication difficulties can have a profound and lasting effect on children’s lives and development. These can affect their ability to communicate and interact with others. The impact of these difficulties will vary depending on the severity of the problems, the support they receive, the demands of the child’s environment

Sam is an adopted child. Quite early on his adoptive parents had concerns about his speech and language. They noticed he uses very few single words and is very reluctant to communicate with anyone. Initially they thought he is feeling shy or taking time to adjust to new environment but Sam started having more tantrums. They were worried about his communication and ability to cope at nursery school. He was referred to the Speech and Language Therapy Service when he was two years old.

As a result of his delay in speech and language skills, Joshua will receive Speech therapy as one of his early childhood intervention services. Joshua is 3.8 years old performing at 3.1 years old. In addition, Joshua’s expressive language skills are at a 2.9-year level. Joshua exhibits difficulty with age appropriate concepts, expressive and receptive language skills, vocabulary and maintaining focus. Furthermore, Joshua’s speech intelligibility is poor to fair, which negatively impacts his social language skills especially in a large group setting. According to the Speech and Language Chart (2nd Ed.) children from 2 ½ -3 years old should have speech intelligibility of approximately 80%. Joshua speech is judged to be more than 33% delayed.

Communication is vital in life, whether it be from simply having a conversation with someone or trying to understand what they are saying and if a person has a speech disorder, that can make life very complicated. Children with speech disorders may have trouble producing sounds to use spoken language to communicate with people and may have trouble understanding what people are trying to say. Children with speech disorders may have problems with vocal quality, articulation, fluency, hearing, and intellectual abilities. Those difficulties that children may face due to speech disorders can potentially cause setbacks in their everyday life which is why Midlands Therapy Services tries to help children reach their full potential. Midlands Therapy

Their purpose is to determine what aspects of a child's verbal repertoire are weak and where to begin a language intervention program, which is done by testing the child's language skills (the mand, tact, echoic, interverbal, imitation, and visual performance) and presenting them with an increasingly complex set of receptive and expressive tasks. The primary goal of these language assessments is to identify a child's age-equivalent linguistic level, which are obtained by a comparison of the child's score on the test to the average language abilities of a large group of typically developing children. Language assessments that focus on age-equivalent scores, and the traditional receptive and expressive distinction, are less useful to parent and teachers who simply need direction for working with a particular child. Finally, we should never forget the role that an early intervention plays in the child’s language development. Barbera Introduction, presented how an early intervention is critical for working with children who have some severe difficulties with language, socializing or communicating. Because treatment programs are more effective when started at early age including disorders as mental retardation and pervasive developmental disorders like autism, which are considered the most difficult to treat by the American Psychiatrist Association’s

Any intervention plan needs to include three components to be successful. The first being clinical expertise of the professionals that the disorder pertains to. Therefore, with speech being the target, a speech language pathologist would use his/her clinical judgment. The next factor includes current research and studies that involve the disorder being targeted. The intervention plan needs to be based in science, and there needs to have been previous research done to prove its effectiveness. This assures both the clinician and the client that the treatment will yield results if preformed correctly. The most important aspect is the last component, involving the child and their caregivers. It is pertinent that the patient is the main focus of all decisions, and with young infants that includes the caregiver/s as well. In order to devise a proper intervention plan, the patient and the caregiver/s concerns and wants need to be met. If patient or caregiver would like to target a specific difficulty, it is the clinician’s responsibility to use their professional expertise and current research to compose a plan that best suits the client and his/her needs. (Ritzman,

The issue of spoken language is more obvious than some think, and the situation should be cared about more widely in the world. Language processing disorder associates with auditory processing disorder. Children with these effects have difficulties with simple things in life unlike people who don’t have this disorder. Being young there are certain symptoms that children express that allows parents or guardians to recognize the disorder. Children carry effects from this disorder throughout their life time and this leaves them with negative effects. It’s important to understand that these children can be helped and that it takes time and patients. This is a disorder than cannot be diagnose before birth but it found out as the child begins

Autism or autism spectrum disorders (ASDS) refer to a group of autistic disorders. The common impairments that come with autism are abnormal social development, impaired language and communication skills, and repetitive behavior and restricted interest. Autism diagnosis have been on the rise in the last few decades, this is likely contributed to the ability to diagnose children at a younger age, such as 2 or 3. Although there is no cure for autism, it has been found that early behavioral treatment can improve their impairments (Sigelman,____). Our focus will be on the effects of parent training interventions on autism. To determine if parent training interventions are effective

There are a number of appropriate family interventions and theories that can assist the Flynn family and Rick and Kim’s family. An important fact (and key for recovery) is that the family system can be a powerful force and even more powerful than the addiction itself. A number of interventions and treatment options that can be used to help the families in an attempt to address the problems brought forward in the case study.

Validity. The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center released a best evidence statement (BESt). There are ten interventions and practices that were considered. These interventions were allotted into groups according to age groups ranging from infancy to adolescent. The interventions considered for infancy are oral sucrose solution, breastfeeding, holding the infant, age appropriate distraction, topical agents containing lidocaine/prilocaine, sequential injection and rapid combined injection. The administration of oral sucrose solution is strongly recommended (CCHMC, 2013).

The findings of the reviewed studies on the various approaches used to prevent and manage aggressive and violent patients in mental health or psychiatric units are relevant to the study examining the effectiveness of less restrictive/coercive methods. First, the study findings show that staff and inpatients in the forensic psychiatric units agreed on the use of the non-invasive and de-escalation approaches, including one-to-one relations and communication to prevent patients’ violence against health care staff. The findings are relevant to the study of the effectiveness of using child-parent intervention to prevent aggressive and violent behavior in patients with mental illness. The child-parent intervention could be used to develop non-coercive

I think use of a routine based interview is a good idea. I like the idea of incorporating parents into interventions. I think parent participation is essential for early-childhood interventions. If I remember correctly, RBI’s are commonly used when conducting Individual’s Family Services Plans. I am curious how your intervention would be different than an IFSP? I think it would be great to offer RBI and interventions tailored to families, even if a child does not qualify for an IFSP.