Final Reflection

Throughout this course I have learned just how important it is to involve the parents in intervention sessions. We aren't around every day, all day, and the parents are, so for the child to have the most success, we need to be using the coaching model. The biggest part of this model is communication. We need to be talking to the parents, giving suggestions, and modeling for them the specific activity or behavior we want to accomplish. We should also be communicating with the parents about whether or not the activity is helping the child reach their goal. If the parent feels that it isn't, we need to respect that and come up with another way to help the child towards their goal.

Something else that has been reinforced in this class is how important goals are. If we are just going into a home setting without goals, then we are essentially just wasting the family's time, which is not what we are there to do. We need to set a goal from the beginning, and revise that goal throughout the sessions if the child has reached the goal. We are there to make the parent's lives a little easier, which can only be done if we are intentional about our planning, which can only be done if we are creating goals with the parents.

Week Eleven

This week my intervention session was great. We went through the Ages and Stages that would be the next developmental step for Parley to figure out what should be included in the Future Development Plan. Parley was in such a great mood this week, and was an absolute delight to be around. We included his siblings in our play time, which was beneficial because they were wanting to be around us anyway, so we used it to our benefit this week. Working with a partner this semester has been really great. While it started off rough trying to plan interventions with school and work schedules, once we got into a routine it proved to be very beneficial. I have loved working with these infants, and their families this semester!

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Weekly Resource:
While the resource plan is already completed, something I added per Mom's request is going up and down stairs. This resource provides safety tips, as well as a way to start teaching children this skill, and how to continue reinforcing the skill as the children gets older.
https://www.whattoexpect.com/toddler/growth-and-development/up-stairs-down-stairs.aspx