Some Aspects of Early Intervention Services in Development Counseling
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https://doi.org/10.59519/mper3018Keywords:
early intervention, developmental counseling, treatment, developmental difficulties, parentsAbstract
Early intervention includes a wide range of services intended for a child whose development deviates from the usual, as well as his family, in the first years of the child’s life. The aim of the study was to analyze certain elements of early intervention, as well as to examine the structure of users of early stimulation and treatment services provided by the Counseling center for early childhood development at Elementary and secondary school with students’ dormitory “VukKaradžić” in Sombor. The sample consisted of 33 children, aged one to six years (M=4.03; SD=1.24), included in the services of development counseling. Data were collected by examining the files of children who are beneficiaries of counseling services, as well as on the basis of information obtained from parents during the initial meeting. The majority of parents (88.8%) noticed deviations from the expected course of development in their children during the first two years of life, while slightly more than half of the children (48.5%) were included in the treatment program in the same developmental period. Deviations from the expected developmental course were statistically significantly earlier observed in children born after a maintained pregnancy, compared to children born after a normal pregnancy (U=54,000, p=0.011), as well as in children born before or after the anticipated date, compared to children born in the expected term (χ²=6,582, p=0,037). The results obtained in this study can serve as guidelines for further improvement of early intervention services by development counseling.
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