Developmentally Focused and Home-Based Early Intervention Program: A Case Report
Abstract
Early intervention refers to a multidisciplinary approach to developmental support services developed for children aged 0-3 who are considered to be in the risk group and tend to develop differently from their peers' development level. In this study, home-centered early intervention was applied to a 17-month-old toddler within the framework of a developmentally focused early intervention program, and the effects of these practices were evaluated respectively. Denver-II Developmental Screening Inventory and Portage Developmental Scale were applied to the child before and after the program. As a result of developmentally focused and home-based early intervention, there has been an increase in the social, cognitive, self-care, and especially psychomotor developmental domains of the child. We revealed that the toddler started to perform applications such as waving hands, transferring an object to another place, communicating by making eye contact, reacting to his name being called, being able to pay attention to the object shown, and layering the puzzles. In addition, in the preliminary evaluations, we observed that the parents who were insufficient about how to play games with their children and what their children could do during the developmental stages were found to be participatory and self-confident after the early intervention applications.
Keywords
Early intervention , developmentally focused intervention , home visiting , parental support
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