This book provides a guide for planning, providing, and documenting effective early interventions for infants and toddlers and their families. It discusses best practices for engaging the family, team problem-solving, developing individual treatment plans, incorporating evidence-based interventions, tracking progress, and identifying and solving challenges and obstacles presenting during treatment. The book focuses on the approximately 13% of U.S. children under age 3 who have developmental delays/disabilities, many of which may impair their ability to talk, move, learn, socialize, and become independent. When delivered effectively, early intervention can improve daily function and outcomes for these children, many of whom present with multiple and unique challenges. Each chapter in this book is written to guide practitioners, clinicians, therapists, and related professionals in their daily work with young children and their families. It addresses everyday challenges, including creating routines for parents of infants and toddlers, teaching parents how to play with their children and respond to problem behaviors, and managing caregiver stress. Promoting Positive Behavioral Outcomes for Infants and Toddlers is an essential resource for scientist-practitioners/professionals and clinicians as well as researchers and graduate students in child and school psychology; educational psychology; behavioral therapy; infancy and early childhood development; speech pathology, and occupational therapy.
Describes how infants and toddlers learn from a behavioral perspective Presents tools for developmental screening, assessment, and progress monitoring Examines strategies for reducing challenging behaviors in young children Provides a guide for creating family- and child-centered individualized treatment plans Offer strategies for working with families challenged by cultural differences, poverty, and mental health issues
Heather Agazzi
Adaptive behaviors in infants and toddlers Attachment theory and early childhood development Cognitive skills in infants and toddlers Communication skills of infants and toddlers Differential attention in infants and toddlers Early intervention for infants and toddlers Early interventions for behavioral problems Externalizing behaviors of infants and toddlers Home visitation and positive behavioral development Individual Growth and Developmental Indicators (IGDIs) Internalizing behaviors of infants and toddlers Intervention implementation and evaluation Language development in infants and toddlers Motor development in infants and toddlers Parenting styles and early childhood development