The Parent’s Role inDeveloping Children’s Comprehension
This chapter explores several aspects of parental support for comprehension in prereaders by intertwining child language and literacy development with research. Read More
Developmental Progression of Skills: Fine Motor Skills
Excerpted from Early Intervention Every Day!, this chapter presents milestones in the area of fine motor skills and ways for providers to coach caregivers to facilitate the skill’s development in daily routines and activities. Read More
Getting to Know the Family
This brief excerpt explains why it's useful for professionals to gather information on the families they serve, inculding details about family composition, culture/language, and customs. Read More
Intervention to Equalize Early Experience
This final chapter of Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children explores the authors' conclusions from their groundbreaking word gap study and proposes strategies for leveling the playing field. Read More
Home visitors: Try the “developmental parenting” approach
Home visiting approaches have been refined since practitioners moved from the clinic into the family home. Rather than provide services directly to the child or directly to the parent, practitioners can emphasize parent–child interaction so that services are provided through the parent to the child. See how you can use the developmental parenting approach to guide parents in reinforcing and supporting their child's development for long-lasting impact. Read More
10 Steps to Parenting Competence
The Pathways to Competence for Young Children parenting program is designed to help parent educators teach practices that will help parents enhance their children's social and emotional development. Take a glimpse at the 10 steps of the program, along with suggested tips for parents to try to help them accomplish each goal. Read More
Toilet training
This chapter describes in detail how to toilet train your child with special needs. The importance of record keeping is discussed, and several sample record sheets are included. Read More
Toilet Training: Elimination Record
This chart from Steps to Independence, Fourth Edition is a helpful tool for toilet training Read More
Behavior chart
View the sample behavior chart which can be used by parents to monitor their child's behavior on a weekly basis. The chart includes spaces for parents to indicate what behavior is being observed, how often the behavior is being observed, and how their child's behavior is changing over time. Read More
Home-care assessment
View the sample assessment, which can be used by parents to monitor their child's mastery of home-care skills and motivation level. The checklist includes seven categories: cleaning, laundry, food preparation, replacing used items, tool use, routine adjustments and maintenence, and nonroutine repairs. Read More
