Early Intervention for Children with Developmental Disorders: Who Do Physicians Refer?

Early Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities

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...

Relationship-focused early intervention with children with pervasive developmental disorders and other disabilities: a comparative study.

This study compares the effects of relationship-focused early intervention on toddlers and preschool-age children who were classified as having either pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) (N = 20) or developmental disabilities (DDs) (N = 30). The intervention was conducted over a 1-year period through weekly individual parent-child sessions. It focused on helping parents use responsive teac...

Early Communication Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

The main purpose of this chapter is to present the results of a review of communication interventions for children aged 0-6 years with autism spectrum disorders and to formulate recommendations for an evidence-based practice. The study, including 20 reviews and 27 primary studies, specifically focus interventions targeting children with diagnosis within the autism spectrum being on an early com...

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...