<p style="margin: 0px;">BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Chapter 1: Components of Early Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Chapter 2: Early Communication Impairment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Chapter 3: A Model for Early Communication Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Chapter 4: Assessment of Early Communication Intervention: What to Assess</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Chapter 5: Early Communication Assessment Process</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 6: Presymbolic Early Communication Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 7: Alternative and Augmentative Communication: Introduction and Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Chapter 8: Alternative and Augmentative Communication: Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Chapter 9: Symbolic Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Chapter 10: Feeding and Swallowing by Jessica Kisenwether, Ph.D., Misericordia University</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix A: Sample IFSP</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix B: Evaluation of At-Risk Neonates</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix C: Formal Tests for Young Children</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix D: Caregiver Questionnaire</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix E: Developmental Milestones</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix F: Interactional Observation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix G: Forms of Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix H: Intervention Approaches for Children with ASD</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix I: Stimulation Activities</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix J: Possible Electronic AAC Assessment Protocol</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix K: Feeding Assessment Interview Questionnaire</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 1: Components of Early Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Overview of EI</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Legal Basis for Early Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA)</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Summary</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Transdisciplinary Team</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">The Importance of Families</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Cultural Considerations</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Parents/Caregivers</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Individualized for Each Child</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Natural Environment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">The Need for Evidence-Based Practice</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 2: Early Communication Impairment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Late Language Emergence</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Risk of Communication Impairment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Established risk</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Intellectual Disability (ID)</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Cerebral Palsy</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Deafness and Deaf-Blindness</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Cleft Palate</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">At-risk Children</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">International Adoptions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Low Socioeconomic Status</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Maltreatment/Neglect, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Prenatal Cocaine Exposure</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Early Identifying Signs and Behaviors</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">APGAR, an Infant’s First Exam</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 3: A Model for Early Communication Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">The Evolving Model of ECI Service Delivery </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Functional Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Generalization</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Family-Centered Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Individualization</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Content for Improving Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Intervention Strategies</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Responsive Interaction Strategies</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Directive Interaction Strategies</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Blended Strategies</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Role of a Child’s Environment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Family-Centered Services</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Working with Parents</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Hybrid Approach to Family-Centered Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Teachers, Classroom Aides, and Child Care Providers</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Child Peers</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Role of the SLP as Part of the Team</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Consultation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Service Coordination </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Transition Planning </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Advocacy Awareness and Advancement of the Knowledge Base</p> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div> <p style="margin: 0px;">An Example of Early Intervention: Parents Interacting with Infants (PIWI)</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 4: Assessment of Early Communication Intervention: What to Assess</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Evaluation vs. Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Transdisciplinary Model of Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Play-based Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Role of Parents & Caregivers</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> A Rationale for Parental Involvement in Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Involving Families in Assessment </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Family Concerns, Priorities, and Resources</p> </div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"></div> <div></div> <div> <p style="margin: 0px;">Informal Communication Assessment </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Description of Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Presymbolic Behaviors</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Symbolic Behaviors</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Formal Assessment Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Early identification of Children with ASD</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Eligibility for Services</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 5: Early Communication Assessment Process</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Communication Screening</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Families with Culturally Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Communication Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Multiple Measures</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Transdisciplinary Teams</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Ecological Validity</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Pre-assessment Planning and Preliminary Data Collecting</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Questionnaire</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Caregiver Interview</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">The Evolving Assessment Plan</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Interactional Observation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">The Observation Process</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Judging Communication Success and Intentionality</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Caregiver-Child Interactions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Forming Hypotheses</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Play-based Interactional Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Dynamic Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Describing Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Symbolic Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Presymbolic Behaviors</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Sampling</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Analysis of Data</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Decision-making and Recommendations</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Outcomes</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Final Word on Parental Involvement</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Special Cases</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Children with Deafness and Blindness</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">International Adoptees and Children from Families Speaking Other-than-English</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Children with Challenging Behaviors</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Children with Motor Speech Disorders</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Children with ASD</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 6: Presymbolic Early Communication Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Spectrum of Early Communication Intervention </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Location of Intervention </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Types of ECI Service Delivery</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Intervention Approach</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> AAC and the Pressure to Speak</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Contingent Imitation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Exaggerated Intonation and Modified Prosody</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Feedback</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Avoidance of Non-speech Oral Motor Exercises</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Getting Started</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Enhancing Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">In the NICU or SCN</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Establishing Early Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Functional Equivalence and Challenging Behaviors</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Establishing Gestures</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Vocalizing</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Language Stimulation: Talking to Young Children</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Bilingual Families</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Presymbolic Skills</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Establishing Joint Attending</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Imitation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Means-Ends</p> Monitoring Intervention <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 7: Alternative and Augmentative Communication: Introduction and Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Types of AAC</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Unaided AAC</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Aided AAC</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Evidence-Based Practice</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Dangers in Ignoring EBP</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">AAC Myths</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Elements of a Thorough AAC Assessment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Decision-making </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 8: Alternative and Augmentative Communication: Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Getting Started</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Initiating Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Active Learning</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Child-based Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Representations</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Organization</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Selection</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Output</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> The Child’s Communication System</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Issues</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Functional Equivalence </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Vocabulary </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Multimodality and Development</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Generalization: Role of the Environment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Neuromotor Considerations</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Intervention Methods</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Early Communication Intentions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Transitioning from Nonsymbolic to Symbolic</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Receptive Use</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Expressive Use</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Children with Deafness and Blindness</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Children with ASD</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Aided AAC</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Picture Exchange System (PECS)</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Useful Websites</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 9: Symbolic Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Early Symbolic Guidelines</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Selecting New Symbols</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Expanding the Range of Intentions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Teaching Semantic Categories</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Combining into Longer Utterances</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Symbolic Intervention Techniques</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Model Language but Do Not Require a Child Response</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Model Language and Require a Child Response</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Provide Feedback but Do Not Require a Child Response</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Respond and Require a Child Response</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Specific Targets</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Single Words</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Two-Word Constructions </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Longer Constructions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Involving Parents, Teachers, and Other Adults</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Book Sharing</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Language Modeling</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> A Helpful Website</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Two Examples of Early Communication Intervention</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Hanen Early Language Program</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Responsive Education<sup> </sup>and Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter 10: Feeding and Swallowing </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">by Jessica Kisenwether, Ph.D., Misericordia University</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Background</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Role of the SLP</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Specific Considerations in Pediatric Swallowing</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Differences in Anatomy and Physiology</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Differences in Etiology</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Differences in Communication Skills</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Differences in Treatment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Development of Feeding</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Newborns - 3 Months</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> 6 - 12 Months</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> 15 - 24 Months</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Causes of Feeding/Swallowing Difficulty</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Prematurity and/or Low Birth Weight</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Neurological Conditions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Cardiovascular Conditions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Respiratory Conditions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Traumatic Brain Injury</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Failure to Thrive</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Esophageal Complications</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Craniofacial Anomalies</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Environmental Conditions</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Feeding Team</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Assessment Strategies</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Medical History</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Interview </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Observation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Physical Examination</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Swallow Evaluation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Instrumental Evaluation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Treatment Strategies</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Environment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Positioning</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Pacing</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Texture Changes</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Oral Motor/Sensory Stimulation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Behavioral Treatment</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> Cultural Considerations</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Chapter Conclusion</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendices</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix A: Sample IFSP</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix B: Evaluation of At-Risk Neonates</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix C: Formal Tests for Young Children</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix D: Caregiver Questionnaire</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix E: Developmental Milestones</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix F: Interactional Observation</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix G: Forms of Communication</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix H: Intervention Approaches for Children with ASD</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix I: Stimulation Activities</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix J: Possible Electronic AAC Assessment Protocol</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Appendix K: Feeding Assessment Interview Questionnaire</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Glossary</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Author Index</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Content Index </p> </div>