Early Intervention in Reading

Supporting Families through Early Intervention

Internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. In many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home to teach parents how they could overcome the childchr('39')s impairments. The logic of early intervention was inequitable. For example, the soo...

Reading Together: A Successful Reading Fluency Intervention

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Early Clinical Encounter: Report of an Intervention

Introduction. Encountering clinical environments as an inseparable part of studying medicine could bring about tension and anxiety for medical students. Early clinical exposure has been suggested in order to decrease these stresses and to motivate students for a better attitude and awareness. This study was performed to determine the effect of a short-term period of exposing to clinical envi...

Early intervention in psychosis: specialized intervention and early case identification.

Specialized early intervention (SEI) approach to treatment of a First Episode of Psychosis (FEP) consists of two equally important components, namely, a phase specific treatment program and early case identification. In this article we report a brief update on our knowledge about both aspects of SEI services. We then provide a description of a prototypical SEI service within the Canadian contex...

Early Intervention in Schizophrenia