Parent Involvement with Early Intervention Services

Course overview

Early intervention services that are effective continue into the home setting and with parents and caregivers once the provider leaves the setting. Research-based strategies that are guided toward helping parents and caregivers should be made available as tools for helping the service recipient's support system take an active role in their development. In this course, participants will learn to (1) identify and consider various factors that could potentially influence the outcomes of treatment, (2) identify common training errors that can occur when training a parent or caregiver, (3) consider different factors associated with the facilitation of skill development. These components are key to effective service delivery and integrating parents and caregivers into the service delivery model.