Coordinator Jessica Conzen-Early Intervention Specialist The Mission of EPU: EPU’s mission is to strengthen and empower children and families facing extraordinary medical‚ developmental‚ and parenting challenges. We do this by: Promoting development of infants/children w/special medical‚ developmental or emotional needs Supporting & assisting parents in the understanding‚ knowledge and skills needed to help themselves & their children experience success at home and in
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Another aspect to parenting disabled children is balancing protection and overprotection. Many times parents are afraid their disable child is unfit to make certain decisions‚ could harm themselves‚ or feel they are not ready to face certain things. Although protecting children is a God-given instinct‚ overprotecting them out of fear damages their potential to grow (Clinton & Sibcy‚ 2006). In many cases‚ mothers of autistic children feel an increased need to protect their children from even the smallest
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Care for Children and Young People. Q. Describe health and social care services provision for looked- after children and young people (Pass 3). Organisation of care provision. Care is provided for children and young people by the following agencies; -Central and local government. -The voluntary sector. -Private providers. -Provision for young offenders. Central government. There are a number of departments and services within central government as detail below. Department of health;
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Federal Investment in Early Childhood Intervention The United States government has been advocating the early influence on health and development of children since the early 1900’s. Congress established a Children’s Bureau in the Department of Labor in 1912. The purpose of this sub-department was “to investigate and report … upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people.” (Meisels & Shonkoff) In the Bureau’s first printed annual report
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Early intervention are methods and treatments that are used to aid children and families who need support in specific areas. Early intervention can also include prenatal care‚ mothers who have poor diets such as lack of nutrients‚ early intervention would include prenatal vitamins and other medical needs. If mother and child receive support early it can help limit the severity of the child’s health condition after birth. Early intervention also includes mental support to parents who becomes aware
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------------------------------------------------- Understanding safeguarding of children and young people For those working in the adult sector Unit 516 Understand safeguarding of children and young people (for those working in the adult sector) 1 Understand the Policies‚ Procedures and Practices for safe working with children and young adults Firstly before any legislation that a child is assessed under‚ an assessment has to be carried out to ascertain the following: * Gathering of information
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The Concerns of Obesity in Children and Young People Introduction Fat adults are fat because they eat too much fatty food and do not get enough exercise. Fat children are healthy and cute. Fat teenagers are not. Fat people are funny. Fat people can lose weight if they really wanted to. These are just a few common perceptions the public have of people who are over their ideal body weight. What most people do not know is that being overweight or obese carry with it a myriad of health
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There is a high rate of child poverty in the UK. According to Barnados‚ there are 3.9 million children currently affected by poverty. There are a number of issues affected by poverty that can impact the outcome of a child or young person’s life: Finances – with a low income due to a low paid job or being unemployed‚ a lot of opportunities can be limited for the child‚ for example after school clubs like swimming‚ music or sports cannot be attended. All of this can affect a child’s development.
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Policies and procedures are put into place to protect children and young people but also the adults/staff who work with them in the setting‚ it is very important that all professionals within the work place follow safe working practices to make sure that not only the children and young people are protected but also themselves and their colleagues. E.g. if a disclosure is made by either a child or young person to a member of the staff within the setting it is vital that the information they have trusted
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Mainstreaming special needs The soaring cost of special education for disabled students has been appropriately integrated into public schools for the common good of all students from various social classes. Special education has had a deep histroy that has been characterized by a score of legislations that has set this form of education and how it is administered to assimilate students with learning disabilities into standard classrooms. In both the United Kingdom and the United States‚ the first
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