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Consultative Approach

Kids First's consultative programming employs activity based intervention.

1. What is it?

Activity based intervention is a child-directed, transactional approach that embeds training on a child’s individual goals in routine or planned activities. Activity based intervention incorporates therapy into the natural environment  to develop functional and generalized skills.

2. Why is it important?

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  • Capitalizes on the child’s motivation
  • Activities are relevant and meaningful to the child
  • Several “functional areas” can be addressed in the same activity
  • Reinforcement is built into the activity

3. How is it done?

a)

Respond to the child’s invitations, interests, and motivations.
Follow the child’s lead. Encourage the child to make independent choices.

b)

Use daily activities to work on goals and objectives.
Plan how to make the most of every activity (e.g., incorporate problem solving, requesting, making choices, fine and gross motor skills, imitation, commenting, counting, etc).

c)

Utilize logically occurring antecedents and consequences.
Provide necessary materials, events, models and assistance.
Assume an active partnership role with the child.

d)

Develop functional and generalized skills.
Select activities that are meaningful to the child (e.g., turning on the water faucet instead of a dial on an activity box).
Provide a wide variety of antecedents for generalization (e.g., help the child learn the word “car” by labelling pictures of cars, toy cars and real cars).

 

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