Ensuring Timely Connection to Early Intervention for Young Children With Developmental Delays

Early Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities

Early Intervention Approaches to Enhance the Peer-Related Social Competence of Young Children With Developmental Delays: A Historical Perspective.

This article presents a framework for future research and program development designed to support children's peer-related social competence. Intervention research is examined within a historical perspective culminating with a discussion of contemporary translational approaches capable of integrating models of normative development, developmental models of risk and disability, and intervention s...

Global perspective on early diagnosis and intervention for children with developmental delays and disabilities.

Low- and middle-income countries are experiencing a significant reduction in mortality of children under 5 years of age. This reduction is bringing in its wake large numbers of surviving children with developmental delays and disabilities. Very little attention has been paid to these children, most of whom receive minimal or no support. Thus, there is an urgent need to recognize that improving ...

Benefits of early intervention for children with developmental disabilities.

Early intervention programs are designed to enhance the developmental competence of participants and to prevent or minimize developmental delays. Children targeted for early intervention may either include environmentally or biologically vulnerable children, or those with established developmental deficits. There is growing consensus based on the best available evidence that early interventions...

Developmental gains in early intervention based on conductive education by young children with motor disorders.

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the developmental gains of 26 young children with cerebral palsy and three children with other disorders attending early intervention based on the principles of conductive education (NZCE) or community-based (CB). Conductive education was implemented by parents supervised by a conductor an average of 7.4 hours per week. Developmental skills were objectiv...