Promoting Positive Behavioral Outcomes for Infants and Toddlers : An Evidence-Based Guide to Early Intervention

This book provides a guide for planning, providing, and documenting effective early interventions for infants and toddlers and their families. It discusses best practices for engaging the family, team problem-solving, developing individual treatment plans, incorporating evidence-based interventions, tracking progress, and identifying and solving challenges and obstacles presenting during treatment. The book focuses on the approximately 13% of U.S. children under age 3 who have developmental delays/disabilities, many of which may impair their ability to talk, move, learn, socialize, and become independent. When delivered effectively, early intervention can improve daily function and outcomes for these children, many of whom present with multiple and unique challenges. Each chapter in this book is written to guide practitioners, clinicians, therapists, and related professionals in their daily work with young children and their families. It addresses everyday challenges, including creating routines for parents of infants and toddlers, teaching parents how to play with their children and respond to problem behaviors, and managing caregiver stress. __Promoting Positive Behavioral Outcomes for Infants and Toddlers__ is an essential resource for scientist-practitioners/professionals and clinicians as well as researchers and graduate students in child and school psychology; educational psychology; behavioral therapy; infancy and early childhood development; speech pathology, and occupational therapy. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Social-Emotional Development in Young Children and the Purpose of Early Intervention (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 1-19 Best Practices in Assessment and Intervention with Infants and Toddlers (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 21-33 A Routines-Based Approach to Early Intervention (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 35-51 Problem-Solving Behavior: The ABC’s of Behavior (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 53-63 Strategies to Prevent Problem Behavior (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 65-77 Techniques to Teach Children New Skills (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 79-97 Positive Discipline Skills (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 99-122 Family-Centered Practices in Early Intervention (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 123-130 Helping Caregivers Manage Stress (Heather Agazzi, Emily J. Shaffer-Hudkins, Kathleen Hague Armstrong, Holland Hayford)....Pages 131-145 Back Matter ....Pages 147-154