Here's How to do Early Intervention for Speech and Language:
Here's How to Do Early Intervention for Speech and Language: Empowering Parents is an essential guide to early intervention for treatment of autism and related disorders. In clear, direct language, it helps early interventionists jump-start the communication process, strengthen parent confidence, and promote healthier parent-child relationships. It provides key strategies for collaborating with parents in stress, as well as how to foster effective relationships with allied professionals. With its far-reaching scope, this book provides foundational activities useful to non-SLPs working with caregivers, including infant education and mental health programs, applied behavioral analysis (ABA) agencies, and students working toward earning their BCBA licenses. This how-to resource provides specific techniques and guidelines designed to:
Help therapists provide specific guidelines for parents new to early intervention
Explore how parent-child interaction is impacted by a delay or disorder in communication skills
Review the grieving process and how it relates to parents of children with developmental delays and disorders, including autism
Review and blend developmental and behavioral theories as applicable to early intervention
Discuss the application of evidenced based practices into everyday treatment
Develop parental sense of competency by building effective interaction
Provide specific strategies for parents and therapists to develop functional communication through direct and indirect play, gestures, modified signs, and sound imitation
Review effective data tracking and methods of recording progress
Help therapists work with families as they transition out of the early intervention system