Early Intervention Evaluation and Therapy

Evaluation of the Birth to 3 Child
• Knowing your audience: How to balance the need for accurate clinical information with family understanding of the child’s needs. These evaluations are written for the benefit of the “family first” and must be easily understood by a lay person.
• Standardized Test items vs. Observed Functioning and Parent input: Citing test item scores is important for eligibility, but evaluations must translate the scores into meaningful information to guide the intervention.
• Interpreting sensitive information for parents

“Professional Therapy Cleverly Disguised as Play”
• This is the tag line for the Clubhouse and is there for an important reason – play is critical to the process of learning and engaging
• Examples of therapy strategies that are “clinical” in nature vs. those that are truly play based and meaningful. How to embed effective strategies into play.
• Discussion and sharing of further examples of great play activities that work!