Michelle Fryt Linehan – The Early Intervention Years

The most current research can be a game-changer for therapists, teachers, and family resources personnel working with children suffering from mild to severe disabilities in the 0-3 age range. 

Michelle Fryt Linehan – The Early Intervention Years

TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN

• Information from 0-12 months from Amazing Babies
• The “creeping” stage
• Gross Motor Development and Manual Control 1-3 years

DEVELOPMENT OF THE 7 SENSORY SYSTEMS

• Vision
• Visual check list for children under 12 months of age
• Touch/Somatosensory
  • Use of massage and “cultural awareness”
• Smell/Olfactory
• Taste/Gustation
• Hearing/Auditory
  • Causes of hearing impairment
  • Tubes or no tubes
• Proprioception
• Vestibular
  • Vestibular stimulation
• Testing Sensory Function in Infants
  • Specific Standardized Assessments
  • Month-Specific Sensory Motor Checklist from Pathways Awareness
  • Gravitational Insecurity Test for Children 2-5 years

MUSCULOSKELETAL CHANGES TAKING PLACE

• Hip joint
• Knee joint (genu varum, valgum)
• Foot/ankle

DEVELOPMENT OF WALKING

• Crucial Elements, postural control, IQ, FPA
• Baby Walkers?

GATHERING INFORMATION

• 7 Key Principles of Early Intervention
  • What to do before, during, and after administering a screening
• Perlman Development Screening Checklist
• Pathways Awareness Information
• Hawaii Early Learning Profile
• PIQ – video of child using PIQ
• Bly’s information
• Assessment of Family Activities & Routines, Thomas Jefferson University (2009)
• Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)
• Goal Attainment Scaling
• Mary Massery: Multi-System Analysis
• Standardized developmental assessments
• BSIDIII, PDMS-2, AIMS
• LAB: Practice recording parent goals and establish strategies to work towards those goals (Example given from The Early Intervention Workbook.)

EVALUATING AND TREATING DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY AND PREMATURITY

• Video of premie
• Pathways Awareness video of typical and atypical development of 6-month old boys
• Definition of prematurity; research related to prematurity
• Evaluating motor skills in premature infants
  • Posture in positions; TIMP; Early Motor Questionnaire; GMs (video)
• Treatment Strategies for Premature Infants and Infants with Delay
  • Perlman Center Evidence-Based Practice Ideas
  • Ideas from Dr. Minja Hadders-Algra
  • GAME (Goals, Activity, Motor Enrichment)
  • 4 Ingredients for treating children with CP (Fetters)
  • Evidence-based practice: 2 systematic reviews
• High-intensity PT for children under 2 years old
  • Predictors of independent walking in children with CP
  • Training Head Control in Infants: Group Experience!
  • Teach To Reach program
  • Gymboree Baby Play, Happiest Baby on Block, NDT-based activities
  • COPCA vs Traditional NDT-based PT – Early use of COPCA
  • Focus on Function RX ideas
  • Reading and Responding to Infant Cues
    • Getting to Know Your Baby
    • Understanding My Signals & Taking Care of Me
  • Early Coping Inventory (for children 4-36 months)
  • Ideas from Ginny Paleg at AACPDM conference
• Equipment Use
  • Go Baby Go
  • Standers (for hip abduction as well) gait trainers/walkers
  • PWBS
  • Theratogs
  • Home-made devices
• Case Study With Documentation Options
  • ICF-CY – electronic document
  • Case study: use of ICF-CY document, COPM, GAS

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Promoting Development in Children Under 3 Years

The most current research can be a game-changer for therapists, teachers, and family resources personnel working with children suffering from mild to severe disabilities in the 0-3 age range.  This recording will provide updated information on normal development, and how to spot even the most difficult to pinpoint signs of delay.

An in-depth description of the development of the sensory systems, (vision, touch, smell, taste, auditory, proprioception, and vestibular), will be given to maximize the assessment of a child’s motor, coping, and self-regulation strategies. Specific evidence-based treatment techniques for clinicians with patients who have complications related to prematurity, developmental delay, and cerebral palsy will be addressed. Videos, hands-on activities, and a case study will further evince the research and information shared in this critical recording.