WK 3 Research that Benefits Children and Families "Early Intervention"

I read a research article that focused on families and children with a developmental delay or a diagnosed disability called “First Experiences With Early Intervention: A National Perspective.” This study focused on “families’ initial experiences in determining their child’s eligibility, interactions with medical professionals, efforts required to obtain services, participation in planning for services, satisfaction with services, and interactions with professionals.

It was exciting to read that more families interact with their medical professional than not, which shows that more families are concerned about their child’s development.   I was also excited to read that a very small number of families did not receive services right away.  This shows that families are concerned about their child’s development and the early intervention services is here to make sure children do not fall behind and get them ready for success.  There was a high percentage in family’s participating in planning with the professionals for services and would continue interacting with the professional and their child.  I have been in homes where a mother does not show interest in working with their own child and the only interaction that child gets is when I would come and work on the goals. 

Here is a chart of Percentage of children beginning early intervention services……..

 

The Chart below shows families and professionals working together……

 After reading I was glad to see that more families are concerned about their child’s developmental growth and works with their child when the professionals are not there to continue working on their child’s developmental growth goals.   I hope I am able to work with families that care about their child and not to many of the one’s I have worked with. 

WK2 My Personal Research Journey

Writing and researching about a topics has always been a struggle for me for as long as I can remember.  I have two things I would like to write about but have to narrow it down to one topic along with three subtopics. 

The first is learning more about my local Quality Rating Improvement Systems.  I would love to be able to provide information to child care centers (1) benefits in participating in a Quality Rating System, (2) ways to foster early childhood development, and (3) how others are or can invest in the quality care and education. I believe in a Quality Rating System and wish that my local child care centers would participate in which would provide the children quality care and education. 

The second big issue is, I thought about researching was about working with families to improve infants and toddlers developmental progress using every days's life experiences.  My subtopics for this topic was; (2) benefits in participating in an early intervention program like First Steps, (2) ways to involve families in the developmental process, and (3) how your daily routines can foster child development.

I feel both topics and subtopics are still to broad and not sure which topic to choose.  WHAT DO YOU THINK?

EDUC 6163 Wk 1 Hello

Hello to All in EDUC 6163.  For the next 8 weeks I look forward to reading everyone's blogs.

WK 8 International Early Childhood Education

The past eight weeks has been great experience learning about how others around the world feel the same way we do about early childhood education.  I have really enjoyed reading my classmates blogs and all the information they have given has been helpful. 

 

Here is what I see, 3 Consequences of learning about the international early childhood field for my professional and personal development…

Ø  Establishing International Connections because I had the hardest time trying to connect with someone around the world internationally and still was not able to contact anyone.
Ø  Increasing awareness because the US struggles to provide early childhood education so does other countries around the world and with poverty being the first signs that a child will struggle in their education if they don’t start getting the education or interventions early on.
Ø   Expanding our knowledge or interest in the early childhood field not only in our back yard but around the world.  International children are in a bigger need for early childhood education due to higher poverty.

My goal is to learn more about early childhood around the world and still continue trying to get in contact with someone around the around the world.