Parent Satisfaction with Professionals Having a Family Systems Orientation to Early Intervention

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane P. Callahan ◽  
Jennifer Olson
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Rural Families ◽  
Parent Satisfaction ◽  
Family Service ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Young Children With Disabilities ◽  
Degree Of Orientation

This article describes a pilot study conducted to examine parent satisfaction with professionals who provided early intervention services to rural families. Professionals working with infants and young children with disabilities were surveyed to determine their orientation towards a family systems approach to working with families. Interventionists provided information about the degree to which they perceived themselves involving parents in the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) process. Parents were also questioned about their satisfaction with the services which both they and their child received. Results showed that parents appeared to be equally satisfied with interventionists regardless of the degree of orientation towards a family systems model of intervention. Implications for service delivery and further research are discussed.

The Implementation of Families First NSW: Process lessons from the first four years

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Fisher ◽  
Cathy Thomson ◽  
kylie valentine
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Community Services ◽  
System Capacity ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Human Services Agencies ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Families First

Families First is a NSW Government strategy that aims to improve the effectiveness of early intervention services supporting families and communities to care for children. Its implementation is the joint responsibility of the five NSW Human Services agencies: the NSW departments of Community Services (DoCS); Ageing Disability and Home Care (DADHC); Education and Training (DET); Housing; and NSW Health through Area Health Services. Area Reviews are one element of the Families First evaluation process. The reviews focus on the experiences of individual areas during the implementation of the strategy. They were not designed to evaluate individual services but to garner generalisable lessons for future implementation. This article sets out four categories of implementation lessons from the Area Reviews, relating to managing systems change, a systems approach to early intervention and prevention, family services system capacity, and Indigenous participation. These lessons reflect the challenges faced and achievements made in each of the three Families First Areas to improve the coordination of the service network and increase the provision of services for early intervention and prevention.

Early Intervention and Families in Rural Victoria

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Fyffe ◽  
Susana T. Gavidia-Payne ◽  
Jeffrey McCubbery
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Rural Families ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Family Outcomes ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Intervention Services ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Models Of Service Delivery

Families are increasingly understood as inter-related systems where each component interacts with other components in diverse ways. Contemporary research on families which have children with disabilities emphasises the complexity of families and the futility of searching for one characteristic of a family as predictive of family outcomes. The current study investigated the relationship between family needs, family supports, and demographic information for rural families who were eligible for early intervention services. The study did not attempt to review specific early intervention services, but rather to associate the characteristics of services which families found most and least effective. The results are discussed in terms of the practice of providing family-focused models of service delivery. This project was funded by the Golden North Centre, Spastic Society, Bendigo

scholarly journals Statewide policies to improve early intervention services: Promising practices and preliminary results

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Miriam Kuhn ◽  
Courtney Boise ◽  
Sue Bainter ◽  
Cindy Hankey
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Early Intervention ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Home Visits ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Family Service ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Intervention Service

The State of Nebraska Co-Lead agencies, who are responsible for developing statewide early intervention policies, rolled out professional development for two evidence-based strategies across several pilot sites. Implications of these strategies for child/family assessment, Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) development, and Early Intervention service delivery were examined utilizing family (n=30) and professional interviews (n=50), and analyses of IFSPs (n=30). The results of this mixed method study indicate widespread strategy implementation with fidelity fosters early working relationships with families and enables teams to generate, using family members’ own words, a robust group of high-quality child and family IFSP outcomes. Family engagement in planning services such as identifying service providers and setting the frequency and length of home visits was limited. In addition, further professional development is needed to strengthen use of routines-based interventions during home visits and promote family-professional collaboration to monitor child/family progress. Implications for systematic scale-up of evidence-based practices as a function of state policy implementation are reported.

Bottom Line: Who Pays the Bill for Early Intervention Services?

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Janet McCarty ◽  
Laurie Havens
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Infants And Toddlers ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Intervention Services

Medicaid, federal education funds and private insurance all cover the costs of speech-language and hearing services for infants and toddlers. Learn who pays for what.

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