How to carry out early intervention for special children?

Children's physical development is very important, but their mental health requires even more attention from parents, because in modern life, children's psychological problems are increasingly becoming an obstacle to their growth. Psychological problems can have a huge impact on children's lives. These children are special children and require special intervention. Let's take a look at how to conduct early intervention for special children.

Early childhood intervention refers to the provision of a range of comprehensive services to children and their families during the critical early years of childhood to help and promote the healthy growth and development of children.

Specifically:

First, in terms of the timing of intervention, “the earlier the better”, which may be as early as “before pregnancy”. Intervention should be carried out to address some possible risks. Generally speaking, early intervention in a narrow sense refers to the integration of various services provided for special infants and young children during the period of 0 to 3 years old. In a broad sense, it can be from pregnancy to preschool period (some laws may stipulate until 8 years old).

Second, the targets of early intervention, in addition to infants and young children with defects and disorders, also include infants and young children who may have developmental risks, including risk factors such as low birth weight (less than 2500g), dystocia, premature birth (gestational period less than 32 weeks), malnutrition, poverty, etc. At the same time, since families are the main caregivers of special infants and young children, the targets of early intervention should be centered around special infants and young children and their families.

Third, the goal of intervention. The general goal of early intervention is to prevent defects or improve existing disabilities in order to promote the development of special children in physical, cognitive, language, social-emotional or self-care skills.

Fourth, intervention content. Early intervention should combine medical care, education and social welfare to provide individualized development, education and treatment for special children and necessary support for their families. It is a combination of all continuous and systematic professional team services.

Scaffolding in children's learning generally refers to the support provided by adults to young learners. Although Vygotsky never used the concept of scaffolding, his theory emphasized social interaction and the fact that adults provide corresponding support based on children's "zone of proximal development" to promote children's learning and development.