Aquatic Developmental Play Program for Children in Early Intervention: A Case Series

Developmental Assessment of Play: A Model for Early Intervention

This article is the second in a two-part series. It presents an integrated overview of the construct of play and its development in infants, toddlers, and young children. The author describes developmental levels of play ranging from early sensorimotor– exploratory to symbolic play involving complex and planned multischeme sequences. In addition, functional components of symbolic play—agent, in...

Early Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities

Temporal Series Analysis on Avoidable Mortality for the Assessment of an Intervention Program in a Hospital

Background: Avoidable mortality (AM) is one of the most important health indicators (HI) and represents the quality of care in a hospital.Objective: This study measured the efficacy of a training program for a hospital healthcare staff to reduce AM.Methods: This epidemiological study on community intervention analyzed time-series da...

Effectiveness of a Sensory-Enriched Early Intervention Group Program for Children With Developmental Disabilities.

OBJECTIVE The study's objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Interdisciplinary Sensory-Enriched Early Intervention (ISEEI) group program for children with developmental delays. METHOD We conducted a retrospective chart review of 63 children ages 18-36 mo who participated in ISEEI. We evaluated participants with the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development III (Bayley-III) a...

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...