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We are glad you decided to stop by and join us. Our hope is that you will find this Community of Support for home visitors working with children who have special needs and their families an interactive, reflective and supportive experience as well as a place to further your knowledge about home visiting and home visiting topics. To begin with, we encourage you to read over the site Guidelines Page.
We will be promoting family-centered, relationship-based practices. It is our belief that home visitation services must address the family’s concerns for their child and their family, assist the family in problem solving their concerns, build on the child and family’s interests and strengths, and support the parent child interaction. In other words, the caregiver is an active partner in the home visit experience. The impact of interventions on children’s development is directly related to their effectiveness at supporting and encouraging parents to engage in responsive interaction with their children. (Mahoney et al*)
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* Mahoney, G. et al (1998) The Relationship of Parent- Child Interaction to the Effectiveness of Early Intervention Services for At-Risk Children and Children with Disabilities. TECSE 18:1, pp 5 – 17.