Here's How to Do Early Intervention for Speech and Language. Empowering Parents

Description

As the incidence of communication disorders continues to rise, early intervention programs struggle to meet the diverse needs of individual families. Therapists may be equipped with basic strategies to engage children under the age of 24 months in play, but are often unable to actively and directly include parents in treatment, or how to measure subtle speech and language growth resulting from play and interaction. Here's How to Do Early Intervention for Speech and Language helps speech and language therapists, as well as other early interventionists, jump-start the communication process in communicatively delayed children, identify parental anxiety, and strengthen the parent-child relationship.

This how-to resource provides specific techniques and guidelines designed to:

·         Explore the development of typical parent-child interaction and how this is distorted by a developmental delay in communication skills

·         Review the grieving process and how it relates to parents of children with developmental delays and disorders

·         Develop parental sense of competency with their children by teaching basic engagement techniques

·         Provide specific strategies for parents and therapists to playfully develop sound imitation skills, modified signs and gestures, and oral-motor games.

Included is a DVD with video interviews with parents who are able to articulate the process of reinvestment undergone during the grieving process. Additionally, the DVD includes video examples of specific therapy techniques effective for children under the age of 24 months, and the impact that empowering parents has on their ability to engage their children.

Table of contents

·         The History and Importance of Early Intervention and Current Trends

·         Literature Review and Current Studies

·         Fundamentals of Parent-Child Interaction/Atunement and the Impact of a Communication Delay or Disorder

·         Development of Parental Image

·         Typical Development of Parent-Child Interaction

·         Fragmented Relationships--Causes and Effects

·         Redefining the Grieving Process as it Applies to Families of Children with Developmental Delays or Disorders

·         Traditional Grieving Models

·         Understanding the Stages of Grief

·         Guides for Therapists Working with Parent in Grief

·         Brief Overview of Relationship-based Therapies Commonly Used in Early Intervention

·         Pivotal Response Training

·         Theraplay

·         Floortime and the Play Project

·         Project Impact

·         Enhanced Milieu Therapy

·         Parent-Child Sign & Speak: Therapy Guidelines and Techniques for Working with Parents and their Children Under 24 Months

·         Modified Signs and Gestures

·         Sound Imitative Play

·         Rhymes, Songs, and Interactive Play

·         Hierarchy of Prompting

·         Results of 2005 Pilot Study

·         Importance of Empowering Parents

·         Transitioning from Early Intervention