Seminar Overview

Family-Centered Services: Sending Families Forward Engaged, Equipped, and Empowered

This seminar meets the requirements for Early Intervention content area E03 (Family-centered services and supports) and is approved coursework for Ohio Developmental Specialist certification. Topics covered in this Seminar include:

1. Cultural considerations
2. Effects of parents, siblings, extended family, environment, and caregivers on a child with special needs and the child’s impact on the family
3. Family/professional relationships
4. Using adult learning principles to strengthen parent competence and confidence by recognizing and building upon existing strengths and capacities
5. Family empowerment/decision-making
6. Explaining parent rights
7. Helping families use natural learning opportunities to enhance development
8. Family/professional partnerships that are respectful of cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic diversity
9. Identifying and accessing informal and formal family support systems to help achieve outcomes
10. Family-Directed Assessment process
11. Caregiver-child interactions (parent responsiveness)
12. Societal attitudes toward disabilities and their impact on the family

Seminar Developers: Laura L. Maddox, Ph.D., BCBA, COBA and Jen Bavry, B.S.

Estimated Time to Complete: 30 hours

Cost: $50

To pay with a purchase order, please, contact cycseminars@ocali.org