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Early Intervention Services refers to services provided for?
special education
infants and toddlers
infants, toddlers and their families
parents of children with special needs
In Malaysia contacts, early intervention refers to the services for ?
pre-schooler or children age 6 and below
children from birth to 3 years old.
Children above 7 years old.
infants from birth to 1 years old.
Select correct Domains of Development
physical
cognitive
Communication
Social or emotional
Adaptive
"Development of age-appropriate abilities by controlling and coordinating gross motor and fine motor movements." refer to which type of development?
spiritual
communication
physical
adaptive
Why Early intervention services feature assistance for both the infant or toddler and the family?
Intervention effectiveness is dependent on parent-child interaction.
Intervention effects on child development did not appear to occur unless mother changed their style of interaction with their child.
The parent or caregivers is not the factor that assists the child in maintaining the advantage stimulated by early intervention.
A mutually reinforcing cycle of parent-child interactions will not help to maintain the impact of early intervention services.
Which statement below describe the role of early intervention correctly ?
The primary intervention target should not be the child, but the child within the context of the family.
The primary intervention target should not be the child, but the family.
The primary intervention target should be the child, but not the family
The primary intervention target be only the child.
Select the correct main components of Early Intervention Programmes.
Resource Supports
Social Supports
Information and Services
Supplemental supports
•Individual therapies
Ministry of Health play the role of?
Institutional rehabilitation services
Speech therapy, Hearing therapy / audiology
Follow-up treatment, Dietitian, Psychotherapy
Initial assessment
Occupational therapy, Physical rehabilitation / physiotheraphy
What are the Benefits of acquiring an OKU card ?
Hospital services
Allowance
Free passport
DIGI OKU package
Free equipment import tax
What are the effects of Early Intervention?
lessen the severity of the impact of the disability
assist young children with special needs in reaching their full potential
improve family adjustment and functioning
Have more positive attitudes towards high school and more likely to graduate
Are more likely to be assigned to special classes or to be held back a grade
Select 3 Malaysian legislature concerning special education and early intervention for children with special needs.
Education Act 1996
Child Act 2001
Persons with Disabilities Act 2008
Public Law 101-476 Individual with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
Public Law 94-142 Education for All Handicapped Children Act
What are the 3 key components of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) ?
Family’s strengths and preferred resources
Child’s strengths and present levels of development
Family’s concerns and priorities
measurable results or outcomes expected to be achieved for the child and family
Function of IFSP:
Identify the goal they would like to work on in the next six month.
These should be directly related to the family’s priorities and concerns
Include strategy or activity to achieve the outcome and the criteria to know if making any progress.
Provide services only at child's natural environment.
Select 3 main criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of an early intervention programme.
Functional: will it help the children?
Financial and time: What will it cost in dollars and time?
Involvement: does it involved participation of parent?
Time: does it take long time to see the results?
Qualified people: does it provided by teacher with special need?
Evaluation and assessment refers to:
Evaluation is a formal process through which a child’s initial and continuing eligibility for service. It is periodic, occurring at specific intervals.
Assessment is the process of collecting data to use in determine how an individual child’s development is proceeding in each of the five domains of development .
Assessment is a formal process through which a child’s initial and continuing eligibility for service. It is periodic, occurring at specific intervals.
Evaluation is the process of collecting data to use in determine how an individual child’s development is proceeding in each of the five domains of development .
What are the general principles when handling assessment and evaluation?
1. Use multidisciplinary approach is necessary.
2. Performance comprehensive measures, looking at the strength of the children.
3. Use serial (repeated) measures, sampling at different time and in same settings.
4. Respect parents and other family members as expert sources of information.
5. Observe the child both at home and in the program.
Select the correct answer: assessment and early identification needed by a toddler who has delay in speech and language development.
Identification of children with auditory impairment, using at risk criteria and appropriate audiology screening techniques.
Determination of the range, nature, and degree of hearing loss and communication functions, by use of audiological evaluation procedures.
Referral for medical and other services necessary for the habilitation or rehabilitation of children with auditory impairment.
speech therapy and AAC traning.
Why Direct Instruction is important to teach young children with intellectual disability?
Because these group of children have much better long-term memory than short term memory.
They need repeated practice to help them master the learning skills.
Once they store information in long-term memory, they are much likely to forget it.
Because these group of children can't follow the instruction step by step.
Select factors influencing the effectiveness of an Early Intervention Programme.
Early detection
Child involvement
Qualified personnel
Service coordinator
Funding
Select correct description about special education and early intervention
In education, whether preschool, elementary, or secondary- the emphasis is on special education, with related service playing an important but supportive role.
In early intervention, those roles are reversed. The stress in early intervention is on support designed to empower the family so that it functions more effectively on behalf of the infant or toddler.
In education, whether preschool, elementary, or secondary- the emphasis is on special education, with related service playing an important and main role.
In early intervention, those roles remain the same, intervention also focus on academic, so that the toddler able to learn well when entering preschool.
Select the goals of early intervention for both the toddler and the family.
Carefully monitoring the children’s progress.
Helping the parents becomes the most effective parents possible.
Direct services as special instruction for the infant or toddler.
Services for the family.
To carefully monitoring the children's progress, an effective Early intervention service need to:
Provide services for the family include family counseling, training of family in meeting the needs of the infant or toddler, psychological services, social work services, and services coordination (case management) services.
Provide direct services as special instruction for the infant or toddler; physical, occupational, or speech and language therapy; and psychological services, such as diagnosis, assessment, and mental health interventions.
To helping the parents becomes the most effective parents possible, an effective Early intervention service need to:
Provide services for the family include family counseling, training of family in meeting the needs of the infant or toddler, psychological services, social work services, and services coordination (case management) services.
Provide direct services as special instruction for the infant or toddler; physical, occupational, or speech and language therapy; and psychological services, such as diagnosis, assessment, and mental health interventions.
Types of early intervention programme or services required by children with Down syndrome:
physical therapy
occupational therapy
speech therapy
behavioral therapy
social therapy
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