Early childhood interventions for children with developmental delays, including cerebral palsy: Adopting a relationship focus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Barfoot
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Early Childhood Interventions

Early-Childhood Education for the Developmentally Delayed: Diagnosis, Intervention, and Evaluation

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Susan Freedman Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
School Children ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Delayed Diagnosis ◽  
Language Impairments ◽  
Developmentally Delayed ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Childhood Education

This paper describes the referral, diagnostic, interventive, and evaluative procedures used in a self-contained, behaviorally oriented, noncategorical program for pre-school children with speech and language impairments and other developmental delays.

Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn A. Karoly ◽  
◽  
M. Rebecca Kilburn ◽  
Jill S. Cannon
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Interventions

scholarly journals 100 Low Dose Dexamethasone in Chronically Ventilator-Dependent Infants and Survival Free of Cerebral Palsy in Early Childhood. The Dart Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-371
Author(s):  
L W Doyle ◽  
P G Davis ◽  
C J Morley ◽  
A McPhee ◽  
J B Carlin
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Low Dose

Mechanical Ventilation in Preterm Infants: Neurosonographic and Developmental Studies

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard J. Graziani ◽  
Alan R. Spitzer ◽  
Donald G. Mitchell ◽  
Daniel A. Merton ◽  
Christian Stanley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Developmental Delay ◽  
Preterm Infants ◽  
Intracranial Hemorrhage ◽  
Apgar Scores ◽  
Mechanically Ventilated ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Grade Iii

Surviving preterm infants of less than 34 weeks' gestation who were selected on the basis of serial cranial ultrasonographic findings during their nursery course had repeated neurologic and developmental examinations during late infancy and early childhood that established the presence (n = 46) or absence (n = 205) of spastic forms of cerebral palsy. Of the 205 infants without cerebral palsy, 22 scored abnormally low on standardized developmental testing during early childhood. The need for mechanical ventilation beginning on the first day of life (n = 92) was significantly related to gestational age, birth weight, Apgar scores, patent ductus arteriosus, grade III/IV intracranial hemorrhage, large periventricular cysts, and the development of cerebral palsy. In the 192 mechanically ventilated infants, vaginal bleeding during the third trimester, low Apgar scores, and maximally low Pco2 values during the first 3 days of life were significantly related to large periventricular cysts (n = 41) and cerebral palsy (n = 43), but not to developmental delay in the absence of cerebral palsy (n = 18). The severity of intracranial hemorrhage in mechanically ventilated infants was significantly associated with gestational age and maximally low measurements of Pco2 and pH, but not with Apgar scores or maximally low measurements of Po2. Logistic regression analyses controlling for possible confounding variables disclosed that Pco2 values of less than 17 mm Hg during the first 3 days of life in mechanically ventilated infants were associated with a significantly increased risk of moderate to severe periventricular echodensity, large periventricular cysts, grade III/IV intracranial hemorrhage, and cerebral palsy. Neurosonographic abnormalities were highly predictive of cerebral palsy independent of Pco2 measurements. However, neither hypocarbia nor neurosonographic abnormalities were associated with a significantly increased risk of developmental delay in the absence of cerebral palsy. In this preterm infant population, therefore, the risk factors for developmental delay differed from those predictive of spastic forms of cerebral palsy. Of the 57 ventilated preterm infants who were exposed to a maximally low Pco2 of less than 20 mm Hg at least once during the first 3 days of life, 21 developed large periventricular cysts or cerebral palsy or both. Those results suggest that prenatal and neonatal factors including the need for mechanical ventilation beginning on the first day of life and marked hypocarbia during the first 3 postnatal days are associated with an increased risk of damage to the periventricular white matter of some preterm infants. However, a causal relationship between hypocarbia and brain damage in preterm infants remains unproven.

scholarly journals Predictors of Practitioners’ Use of Recommended Early Childhood Intervention Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Carl J. Dunst ◽  
Mary Beth Bruder ◽  
Susan P. Maude ◽  
Melissa Schnurr ◽  
Angela Van Polen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Early Childhood Intervention ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Childhood Intervention ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Development Practice

Findings from research syntheses of adult learning and in-service training studies identified the importance of professional development as a factor influencing practitioner use of recommended and evidence-based intervention practices. These relationships were used to test the hypothesis that practice-specific evidence-based capacity-building professional development would be related to early childhood practitioners’ reported use of recommended early childhood intervention practices. The participants were practitioners working with birth to 3-year-old, 3- to 5-year-old, or birth to 5-year-old children with identified disabilities, developmental delays, or at-risk conditions in home-based or center-based programs or both. The predictors included three practitioner background variables (e.g., years of professional experience) and three professional development variables (e.g., evidence-based professional development practices). Results indicated that the three professional development practice variables accounted for significant amounts of variance in the practitioners’ reported use of 10 different practices beyond that accounted for by the three background variables. The findings highlight the importance of evidence-based capacity-building professional development as a factor influencing practitioners’ judgments of their use of recommended practices.

Neurodevelopmental Disorders Presenting in Early Childhood

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-260
Author(s):  
Jack Dempsey ◽  
Amy K. Barton ◽  
Allison G. Dempsey ◽  
Stephanie Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorders ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Medical Complications ◽  
Medical Conditions ◽  
School Based Intervention ◽  
School Based ◽  
Broad Overview

Neurodevelopmental disorders are a group of conditions that manifest in early childhood and are associated with differences in brain development. They are associated with difficulties with learning, movement, language, or social behaviors. This chapter provides school-based clinicians with a broad overview of neurodevelopmental disorders that present in early childhood, with a particular focus on those associated with specific underlying medical conditions. The reviewed medical conditions and complications include genetic and congenital anomalies, cerebral palsy, and preterm birth. For each of the varying medical complications and conditions, the chapter discusses the assessment and management of the associated neurodevelopmental difficulties, with a focus on applications for the school setting. The chapter ends with a broad overview of school-based intervention strategies and approaches that are commonly implemented when working with children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Early Childhood Interventions

2011 ◽  
pp. 147-169
Author(s):  
Martin J. Lubetsky ◽  
Benjamin L. Handen ◽  
John J. McGonigle
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Interventions
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