Early Intervention

Psychology: Early Intervention

Early Intervention

Early intervention is the generic term for offering assistance of various kinds that can be taken advantage of if the parents regarding their child's development or to worry if a development impairment or disability of the child is present. Early intervention is aimed at parents with children from infancy to school age. Especially wants to help early intervention when young children in terms of their physical, mental and emotional development require assistance (Hanson & Lynch, 1995).

The holistic approach to offer early intervention consists of medical, psychological, educational and social support. The family and the social environment of the child to be involved. Impairment to be recognized as early as possible to prevent the occurrence of disabilities if possible to prevent, mitigate disabilities and their consequences or fix. This would allow the child to get the best possible opportunities for the development of his personality.

Early identification is a major challenge because it allows a curative intervention timely manner, at an age when some development processes can still be heavily modified. This is to allow many children with autism to increase their chances of achieving a good quality of life and integrate into society in an almost complete.

The research evaluated the effects of early intervention show that children beneficiaries of these interventions have significant progress on the cognitive, emotional and social. There is, among children, accelerating the pace of development, an increase of intelligence quotient (IQ), the progress in the language, an improvement in behavior and a reduction in symptoms of autistic disorder. These advances occurring in 1 or 2 years of early intervention and intensive, and the majority of children borne (73%) leads to a functional language at the end of the intervention period (generally around 5 years). The benefits of treatment remain constant thereafter. Unfortunately, the knowledge of this is not yet sufficiently widespread (Hanson & Lynch, 1995).

In practice, the delay in the identification of the early signs of autism is linked to several factors. Parents cannot detect deviant behavior compared to the normal development, especially in the absence of their experience, when the baby is the first child. It also happens that some doctors, not familiar with the early symptoms of autism, they trivialize the first signs and display their reassuring towards the family. Finally, the areas that can accommodate small children are not sufficiently sensitized, so waiting too long before alerting the family ...