Early Intervention Visits

This book is a step-by-step guide for families on how to navigate the early intervention process.

This DVD demonstrates how to facilitate family-centered interactions between the service providers and the families of the children they’re working with. Strategies and specific skills are given so that these services can be provided in the most effective way in the child’s natural home environment.

Video Duration: 18 min

Ellie has her first early intervention visit. Learn about what to expect at an early intervention visit, which can be critical in identifying and addressing developmental delays early in a child’s life.

This book includes case studies featuring more than twenty common challenges that can occur during visits and skill-based solutions and successful strategies you can use to prepare for those situations.

This book emphasizes the importance of family-professional relationships when working with young children. This book gives examples on how to work with parents and bring them in as a part of the collaborative team, noting that the child benefits the most when families and professionals work together effectively.

This book explains to parents how early intervention works and how to best help their child. This book covers when and how to start early intervention, treatment models, parent-child interaction, and much more.

This video focuses on research/preparation; respect/recognition of the important of the family and acknowledgement of their values; and rapport/building a partnership committed to meeting the needs of the child.

Video Duration: 60 min

This book provides extensive information about conducting EI visits and gathering information to individualize interventions and develop service plans. This book also allows PR actioners to reflect on what they do, why, and how they do it.

This seminar demonstrates how sensory, motor and play activities impact self-regulation, social skills and development. Learn cutting-edge, brain-based information and techniques for kids who exhibit difficult behaviors.

Video Duration: 364 min

This book is about digging deeper and looking closer at what it takes to have successful relationships with each and every family. The authors explore seven partnership concepts, brought to life through the words and perspectives of families and professionals themselves.

Home visits with at-risk families present unique, complex challenges that professionals must be ready to address with skill and sensitivity. The problem-solving framework in this practical guide will help home visitors manage even the most difficult on-the-job challenges—and support and empower vulnerable families of children birth to 3.

The modern home visitor’s introductory textbook for effective, culturally sensitive home visits with young children and families.

This practical guide provides examples and best practices for building relationships with families and facilitating adult-child interaction.

This book walks you step-by-step through the five characteristics of successful coaching practices: observation, action, reflection, feedback and joint planning.

With a focus on how families and professionals can collaborate effectively so that infants and toddlers learn, grow, and thrive, this book reflects research and best-practices in the field of early intervention. The book includes a chapter on assessment and planning outlining how parents and professionals can work together throughout the process.

This guide teaches how to ensure coordinated, family‐centered services for young children and families.

This book is a compilation of information for professionals who conduct home visits. Expectations are explained and situations that the professionals may encounter during home visits are explored. The book discusses ideas for how to build the bonds between professionals and families. Several sections discuss difficulties and dilemmas that some professionals have dealt with during home visits.

Your Journey Together (YJT) curriculum guide for coaches includes 29 step-by-step lessons and parent handouts. The lessons associated with each module are designed to show parents how everyday routines, activities, and interactions help promote resilience in young children and the adults caring for them.

This article gives an in-depth explanation of what home visits are for early childhood and talks about the history, effectiveness, and how it can help improve childhood development.

This article reviews the effectiveness of home visits on the young children from disadvantaged families and their “developmental and health outcomes”.

Breakdown of IDHS home visiting services and benefits of implementing home visiting.

This article uses a scenario to explain when parents and professionals should make the “dosage” decision for early intervention services. It also discusses topics such as: Considerations for optimal “dosage” of early intervention services, and a decision-making process for determining “dosage” of early intervention services.

The National Home Visiting Resource Center provides a breakdown of the general practice of home visiting. This article explains the two-generation approach and research-based models to ensure best practice.

In this session Jennifer Gray demonstrates how to serve bilingual families in Early Intervention settings with proficiency.

Viewers will watch footage of two young children with disabilities as parents and professionals conduct observations during typical home activities.

This video explains what early intervention home visiting is and how it works.

This video shows what early intervention visits are like. It includes descriptions of typical routines, parent coaching, and the primary provider model. (English and Spanish options)

This short article discusses three essential components of a home visit through the lens of a case story.

Both the early care and education (ECE) and home visiting (HV) fields build on the central role of families in support of their children’s development. Both fields increasingly view opportunities for family engagement along a continuum, and increasingly focus on meaningful ways to engage families.

“This document reviews the literature on the definition and measurement of quality of home visiting programs designed to promote early childhood development, with a particular focus on those interventions aimed at enhancing child cognitive, language, and socio-emotional outcomes.”

The purpose of this revised position statement is to clarify the role of the service, Special Instruction, and its providers (referred to as “early intervention educators” in this paper) within the broader field of IDEA (2004) Part C early intervention (EI). In Illinois, Special Instruction is referred to as developmental therapy and provided by a developmental therapist.

ZERO TO THREE strongly urges policymakers to continue supporting the expansion of evidence-based home visitation programs, so the diversity of families who need support can access it in a culturally appropriate manner.