Families and Early Intervention

Describe how early intervention services are designed to be family centered and align with the DEC Recommended Practice about Families.

Review the Early Intervention Colorado website, as well as at least 3 videos from this video library (specifically the "Early Intervention"-including Just Being Kids section). Complete a 2-3 page, double spaced paper that describes evidence of alignment to each family recommended practice in the Colorado EI website or family experiences video(s) or both. The paper can be formatted in a table, bulleted, or list each recommended practice and then describe evidence. Be sure to be thorough and descriptive throughout- if there are areas that could be improved, described those as well.

F1. Practitioners build trusting and respectful partnerships with the family through interactions that are sensitive and responsive to cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic diversity.

F2. Practitioners provide the family with up-to-date, comprehensive and unbiased information in a way that the family can understand and use to make informed choices and decisions.

F3. Practitioners are responsive to the family’s concerns, priorities, and changing life circumstances.

F4. Practitioners and the family work together to create outcomes or goals, develop individualized plans, and implement practices that address the family’s priorities and concerns and the child’s strengths and needs.

F5. Practitioners support family functioning, promote family confidence and competence, and strengthen family-child relationships by acting in ways that recognize and build on family strengths and capacities.

F6. Practitioners engage the family in opportunities that support and strengthen parenting knowledge and skills and parenting competence and confidence in ways that are flexible, individualized, and tailored to the family’s preferences.

F7. Practitioners work with the family to identify, access, and use formal and informal resources and supports to achieve family-identified outcomes or goals.

F8. Practitioners provide the family of a young child who has or is at risk for developmental delay/disability, and who is a dual language learner, with information about the benefits of learning in multiple languages for the child’s growth and development.

F9. Practitioners help families know and understand their rights.

F10. Practitioners inform families about leadership and advocacy skill-building opportunities and encourage those who are interested to participate.