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Developmental Milestones for Children Ages Birth to Three Years Old
Posted on April 20, 2007 | Posted by lilya in Articles
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Early Intervention Process: What should I Expect?
Posted on April 19, 2007 | Posted by lilya in Articles
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The process of receiving an Early Intervention (EI) Evaluation for children birth to three years old consists of four steps. They are as follows:
1. Refer your child.
2. Meet with your initial service coordinator (ISC).
3. Initial evaluation is conducted.
4. Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) meeting, if your child is found to be eligible for services. The entire evaluation process takes 30 days from receipt of the initial referral until the evaluation must be completed. The IFSP meeting, when applicable, must occur within 15 days after the evaluation. Therefore, the entire evaluation process takes a total of 45 days.
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Post Adoption Evaluations for Children from Birth – Three Years Old
Posted on April 18, 2007 | Posted by lilya in Articles
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What Developmental Information do Early Intervention Evaluations Provide?
Posted on April 17, 2007 | Posted by lilya in Articles
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Early Intervention for children ages birth to three years old offers families developmental evaluations, and therapeutic services to children who are found to be eligible. Developmental evaluations assess all areas of development: cognitive, social-emotional, physical development, and self-help/adaptive skills. Each area of development is unique and plays a major role in the child’s functional abilities. All Early Intervention evaluations employ age appropriate standardized testing, materials/toys, and clinical opinion to determine a child’s age equivalent.
Activities to Encourage Speech and Language Development: Birth to Two Years Old
Posted on April 15, 2007 | Posted by lilya in Articles
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- Encourage your baby to make vowel-like and consonant-vowel sounds such as “ma,” “da,” and “ba.”
- Reinforce attempts by maintaining eye contact, responding with speech, and imitating vocalizations using different patterns and emphasis.
- Imitate your baby’s laughter and facial expressions.
- Teach your baby to imitate your actions, including clapping you hands, throwing kisses, and playing finger games such as pat-a-cake, peek-a-boo, and the itsy-bitsy-spider.
- Talk as you bathe, feed, and dress your baby. Talk about what you are doing, where you are going, what you will do when you arrive, and who and what you will see.
- Identify colors.
- Count items.
- Use gestures such as waving goodbye to help convey meaning.
- Introduce animal sounds to associate a sound with meaning: “The doggie says woof-woof.”
- Acknowledge the attempt to communicate.
- Expand on single words your baby uses: “Here is Mama. Mama loves you. Where is baby? Here is baby.”
- Read to you child. Sometimes “reading” is simply describing the pictures in a book without following the written words. Choose books that are sturdy and have large colorful pictures Ask your child, “What’s this?” and encourage naming and pointing to familiar objects.
Activities to Encourage Speech and Language Development: Two to Four Year Olds
Posted on April 14, 2007 | Posted by lilya in Articles
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- Use good speech that is clear and simple for your child to model.
- Repeat what your child says indicating that you understand. Build and expand on what was said. “Want juice? I have juice. I have apple juice. Do you want apple juice?”
- Use baby talk only if needed to convey the message and when accompanied by the adult word. “It is time for din-din. We will have dinner now.”
- Make a scrapbook of favorite or familiar things by cutting out pictures. Group them into categories, such as things to ride on, things to eat, things for dessert, fruits, things to play.
- Help your child understand and ask questions. Play the yes-no game. Ask questions such as “Are you a boy?” “Are you Marty?” “Can a pig fly?” Encourage your child to make up questions and try to fool you.
- Ask questions that require a choice. “Do you want an apple or an orange?” “Do you want to wear your red or blue shirt?”
- Expand vocabulary. Name body parts, and identify what you do with them. “This is my nose. I can smell flowers, brownies, popcorn, and soap.”
- Sing simple songs and recite nursery rhymes to show the rhythm and pattern of speech.
- Place familiar objects in a container. Have your child remove the object and tell you what it is called and how to use it. “This is my ball. I bounce it. I play with it.”
- Use photographs of familiar people and places, and retell what happened or make up a new story.
- Lilya Popovetsky
MA SpEd., CAS, SDA
- A Multilingual Development Agency
- A Nassau County Early Intervention Agency for Children from Birth to Three years Old.
- 2998 Shore Drive
Merrick, NY 11566
- Ph: 516-730-5001
- Fax: 516-345-1658
- www.multilingualdevelopment.com
- info@multilingualdevelopment.com