Hi, short term benefits include that the child is able to join in and participate in ways that support healthy growth and development, short term offers immediate reassurances that developmental difficulties have been recognised and can now be acted upon. This is how early identification, assessment and action helps to minimise the risk of problems worsening and the consequences of not having identified difficulties early from continuing throughout their life.
Long term benefits mean the child and their parents do not need to feel isolated or alone in managing difficulties as early intervention ensures a setting's resources eg. number of staff, 1-1 support, assistive technology, toys, activities, contact links with external services can be financed and put into place so as to provide the very best outcomes for the child.
Every Child Matters
Use your knowledge of the areas of development to see how a child is expected to develop and the potential consequences if that were hindered eg. consider what might happen in the short & long term, if a child had difficulty with communication and language. How might their behaviour change if they were repeatedly unable to express themselves and let others know what they want or mean.
If physical difficulties were being experienced how might that impact on their muscular development if they are unable to easily participate in daily activities such as climbing running reading, listening, mark making and daily activities such as using the toilet independently.
Identify the early intervention teams or services that your setting has contact with and how the setting asses a child's early needs eg. development and progress checks, reporting to SEND and child protection officers, CAF, refferals between settings
This quote is from page 167 of the
EYE classroom based learner handbook
' early intervention. This approach seeks to offer extra help and support to a family before the child starts to lag behind in development or experience neglect or abuse. Early intervention is about working cooperatively with parents and carers, giving them the chance to make choices about which services they need.'
Health difficulties and
EYs professional resources on talkingpoint.org.uk
A good read to research this is the 2010 report from MP Graham Allen on gov.uk
the importance of early identification (chapter 1+)
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