Although including families as key decision makers on early intervention teams is
considered best practice, specific information on how to accomplish this goal is still needed …

Services for developmentally delayed children from birth to age three consider the family
first. Eligibility for services is determined through a multidisciplinary assessment. Once a …

LCSW understand the family of the child. The therapist is often denied access to information
that may identify family processes that are detrimental or counterproductive to positive …

This paper demonstrates social casework and family therapy as treatment modalities of
choice to enable a child and her family to achieve maximum benefit from speech services …

A group of five preschool children with developmental disability and their mothers
participated in a study into the efficacy of a parent‐implemented language intervention. Each …

Purpose This article describes guiding principles in early intervention (EI) and demonstrates
how speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can apply these principles to best serve infants …

Methods and activities for working with parents of severely communication-disordered
children are presented. Emphasis is placed on directly involving parents in the treatment …

The purpose of this article is to describe family therapy techniques that may be used by
speech-language pathologists to elicit family cooperation and participation in clinical …

Speech-language pathologists involved in early intervention face new challenges and
complex efficacy issues as a result of PL 99-457. This law requires that infants be managed …

This book is designed to provide a broad range of information on family structure and
function in an increasingly multicultural society, family system characteristics and the …