Feel confident you're delivering effective early intervention and parent coaching sessions with the Early Intervention Handbook.
Becoming comfortable performing Early Intervention teletherapy (or in-person) sessions can take lots of practice and planning. Read on to find inspiration on how to focus your Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, or Speech therapy Early Intervention sessions. Parent coach for success and find a
Are you working with the early intervention population? If so, be sure to check out my FREE Play-Based Speech Therapy Homework. Here is a small collection of the toys and games I use when working with the birth-5 population! Goals to Target: naming body parts, identifying body parts, requesting, producing 2-word phrases (blue shoes, green hat), basic verbs (walk, sleep, jump, hop, dance) Goals to Target: following commands, identifying vocabulary, matching pictures, naming vocabulary, requesting, animal sounds, categories/sorting Goals to Target: requesting more/please with words or signs, imitating "ready, set, go!" or "1, 2, 3, go!", producing bilabial sounds (wow, bubble, pop) Goals to Target: naming vocabulary, identifying vocabulary, simple sentences (I see __), early literacy skills. Goals to Target: requesting, identifying animals, commands (Give me the __), naming, making animal sounds, basic concepts (in/out, on/off, etc) Goals to Target: requesting (more/please), naming (boy/girl/bus/eyes/nose/wheels/door, etc), making environmental sounds ("vroom, beep"), following routine, stop/go, singing with gestures Goals to Target: identifying colors, basic concepts (up/down, in/out, over/under, etc.), requesting objects to put in/out/under/over Goals to Target: environmental sounds ("beep, vroom, crash, choo-choo"), stop/go, fast/slow, identifying and naming colors Since I originally posted this post I had added to my bag quite a bit for my younger kiddos but these are still many of the items I reach for! Want to check out some more Early Intervention bags? Head over and check out the linky!
What is an IFSP? A Parent Guide to Early Intervention Services and IDEA Part C, plus tips for Parents Navigating the 0-3 System and improving outcomes.
Parent advocates will learn about early intervention and autism and early signs of autism and interventions to support development.
Looking to get started in Early Intervention as an Occupational Therapist? This post covers all the things you need to know about getting started in Early Intervention including the role of the Early Intervention Occupational Therapist and 9 tips and resources every new Early Intervention OT needs t
Want to use verbal routines in parent-coaching sessions, but not sure how? Read all about verbal routines, and grab your free handout!
Discover tons of ideas, activities, websites, and resources for early intervention and preschool speech therapy!
Over the past five and a half years I have learned a lot while working as a school-based speech-language pathologist. When I first started I created a set of homework tasks cards called Toddler Toys and felt that it was time for an update. Through the years I have realized that many of my school-age children benefit greatly from play-based speech therapy and that these cards are not just for toddlers. So, I have updated the file and compiled 15 of my favorite, most used play-based speech therapy activities. Most of these are used to increase language and pragmatic skills in younger children or children with Autism Spectrum Disorder but they can also offer articulation and fluency opportunities too. I also find that even my 1st and 2nd graders ask to play with many of these toys when they enter my speech room. If you are limited in your therapy resources, I would highly recommend having any of these items in your therapy room as they can target so many skills. I have also had good luck in finding many of the toys second hand through Facebook marketplace, consignment shops or friends who were getting rid of toys. So what do I do with each of these items? Sometimes I let my students lead us in therapy and go with whatever creative game or play they want to come up with while also indirectly targeting our speech and language goals. I am often surprised by how much we are able to target by just playing or having unstructured opportunities. But, other times I find that I need a more structured approach. I have outlined a structured approach with these homework task cards which you can download for FREE by clicking on any of the pictures in this post. These have been great to send home for homework and the feedback from my parents has been great as well. I hope this has given you some new ideas for how to incorporate play-based therapy into your practice!
Looking for early intervention for sensory differences? This article covers everything you need to know about SPD in early intervention.
Parent-coaching is an effective therapy model. In this post you'll learn 6 of my favourite early language strategies to coach to caregivers.
🤔❓What's the difference between speech-language services provided through early intervention versus preschool speech programs? 👆 Find out here! ❤️
These ABA therapy activities for kids with autism spectrum disorder will give you heaps of ideas you can use at school, in therapy, and at home!
What is Early Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder? Once diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, educational support needs to be given immediately. Intervention is taking an action to improve one's condition. EARLY intervention is giving children educational support at an early age. Usually, a child is diagnosed at the age of 2, more or less. Giving early
Learn how to write quick and easy Early Intervention (EI) goals for speech, language, and feeding therapy. Scroll for goal bank!
The Play Project Autism – A New Approach to Early Intervention Therapy. A resource that is a must have for parents of autistic children
Gestures are a crucial prelinguistic skills. In this post you'll learn 3 tips for encouraging gestures in your Early Intervention sesions.
I am a pediatric occupational therapist, but the bulk of my experience has been in Pennsylvania’s Early Intervention program. Do you know what early intervention (EI) is? I hope so, but I know that many of you don’t. I want to rectify that because if you are living in the United States and have a child under the […]
Learn how to write quick and easy Early Intervention (EI) goals for speech, language, and feeding therapy. Scroll for goal bank!
Summer is here and that means it is time for water play!!I love water as therapy tool because of the variety of activities you can do with it. Variety of activities = variety of vocabulary! Let's refresh. What do I mean when I say "Target Words". Children with language delay need a lot of repetition and examples of new
y intervening early and providing targeted support, pediatric therapists help children overcome challenges, build essential skills, and reach their full potential. That's where early intervention in pediatric therapy comes in.
Discover tons of ideas, activities, websites, and resources for early intervention and preschool speech therapy!
As therapists we know that parent-coaching is important. In this post I talk about WHY parent-coaching is so important in early intervention!
This post outlines an evidence-based approach for parent-coaching that you can use in your early intervention sessions, inc. a free handout.
Today's interview is with dyslexia and early intervention specialist Dr Tim Conway. If you're looking for ways to ensure young children are given the best early intervention, or just to take the most effective approach towards setting up a solid foundation for reading in the future, this interview is for you! You can listen to this
Did you know there are steps prior to verbal language? What comes before words? A guide to pre-verbal language skills.
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Parent education is such an important part of early intervention. If you know me at all you know I love a good handout, so I'm excited to share with you some EI handouts for communication
Learn everything you need to know about early intervention services, including how to get help if you're concerned about your child's development.
Take a look at these 9 toys that can be used during early intervention speech therapy sessions along with ways to use them.
Cause and effect toys! Grow language development, play and fine motor skills. Great for early intervention, speech therapy, and at home.
Check out this blog post for tips and ideas for using a "what's in the bag?" activity to support early language skills in your EI sessions.
Check out this round-up of the top ten books for Early Intervention SLPs. Includes tips for finding books at affordable prices too.
Songs are a great way to target language; get ideas for how to use songs in play and daily routines to support early language skills- includes a freebie!
If your child is facing early intervention speech therapy, you may be wondering what you can do to help the situation. Are there different things you can do to help your child progress? Encouraging the
We all hear about how important early intervention is. But, do you know what it is? Today I'm going to be talking all about early intervention as well as the early intervention benefits for our autistic children. What is Early Intervention? Early intervention is not as scary as it sounds. All it means is that
A list of toys that help toddlers talk from an Early Intervention therapist. Learn which toys help with speech and language development.
This post is the first in a series of sponsored content pieces in partnership with ABC Pediatric Therapy. Have you ever looked at your child and wondered if there was something you could do to
Now that you’ve educated the parents, coached them through strategies, and their child is demonstrating the Pre-Linguistic Skills we addressed in our first two blogs, we can start building on those skills! But where to begin? Think back on how you observe children acquiring language. Does a 1 year old spontaneously go from never making any verbalizations to suddenly responding to verbal routines or saying “hello” and “mama”? Not typically. All of those small little coos and giggles eventually manifest as whole, recognizable words over time and with the right encouragement.
Cause and effect toys! Grow language development, play and fine motor skills. Great for early intervention, speech therapy, and at home.
Toy cars are great for developing early language skills. I've shared 5 ways you can use toy cars to support early language in your therapy sessions.
Use these occupational therapy teletherapy activities in planning online therapy for early intervention, kindergarten, elementary, and middle school.
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