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Early Identification and Intervention

22.3.2 Characteristics of Quality Interventions

Family-centred
Notes • Includes the family members to work alongside the professionals and learn

how to help the child
• Is flexible, can be offered in the home as well as in other settings such as
preschools and early intervention centres

• Provides the family with support and guidance
Developmentally appropriate
• Is specially designed for children in relation to the disability

• Has staff who are specially trained in the intervention and services they
provide
• Develops an individual plan for each child and reviews the plan regularly

• Tracks the children’s progress with regular assessments
Child-focused
• Includes strategies to help children practice difficult skills or learn new skills
and use them in different settings

• Prepares and supports children for optimum development
• Finds ways of getting children with disability together with other children,
ideally of the same age

Supportive and structured
• Provides a supportive learning environment where children feel comfortable
and supported
• Is highly structured, well organised, regular and predictable

These interventions consist of multidisciplinary services to enhance skills,
minimise developmental delays and functional deterioration and promote health
and well-being of children.

INTEXT QUESTIONS 22.4
Match column A with column B.

Column A Column B

1. Occupational therapy (i) speaking
2. Physiotherapy (ii) individual plan for each child
3. Speech therapy (iii) supportive learning environment

4. Supportive and structured (iv) self-help skills
5. Developmentally appropriate (v) balance, sitting, crawling

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