Video Guide and companion training manual identify the many tasks and responsibilities of early intervention service coordination includeing both the knowledge and personal skills fundamental to building partnerships between families and professionals. Includes: VHS, VHS Guide, and Companion Training Manual

This presentation includes all families in the Listen to Family Series with their family consultants. The consultants demonstrate strategies to engage families in conversations about their strengths as well as their problems. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Children who are medically fragile and dependent on technology can miss the opportunity to develop physically, cognitively, or socially as do other children. The tape shows Daniel who has complex medical needs as he participates at preschool in play activities with other similar children. His mother discribes the benefits of preschool. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this lecture, including interviews with parents who have children with disabilities, Michael Trout focuses on the resources and survival skills used by families. Available in VHS format only.

The purpose of this presentation is to examine the linkage between parent-child play interactions and the social/ communicative development of children with autism.

This video reviews nine principles, illustrated as bloopers and better alternatives, critical to family-centered care. Available in VHS format only.

This tape includes unedited excerpts from conversations with 5 diverse families that demonstrate communication strategies helpful in joining with a family and building a collaborative partnership. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The video describes the phases of morning and grief that parents of a child with disabilities may experience. Available in VHS format only.

The focus is on family strength and vulnerabilities, multiple caregiving demands brought on by the mother's worsening sickle cell anemia, the three-year-olds special needs and EI services, custody issues with niece, the strengths and support of the African-American family, the community and church, and the mother's hopes for the future for herself and her children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on the boy's medical condition, the attitudes of medical staff towards the family, financial difficulties, communication, and tensions over the shared responsibilities and altered priorities of the grandparents. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on family strengths, differences in child-rearing philosophy across generations, impact of drugs on family life and continuity, importance of extended family, friends, social services, and spiritual values. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on the development of a couple bond, family-of-origin relationships and acceptance, medical and EI services, and hopes for the future. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on the parents' commitment to their child and their efforts to cooperate. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on parenting roles, stress on the parents and on their relationship from caring for a medically fragile child, the needs of the older sibling, interactions with medical and EI providers, conflicts over diagnosis and treatment, and financial and future concerns. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This tape focuses on children who have been successfully included in regular public school programs following intense early intervention as a result of being about medically fragile and technology dependent The tape shows Daniel, age 6, at school with other children.

Parents and teachers talk about the ability of the children with special health care needs to flourish in a regular environment and to build new academic and social skills. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This program shows an insightful lecture given by Bruce Buehler about the implementation of current medical knowledge into the methods of teaching special needs children in our public schools. Includes: VHS

This program examines the lives of children with diabetes and shows how they cope with their conditions by engaging in fun activities such as play. Includes: VHS

Along with extensive coverage of genetics, heredity, pre- and postnatal development, specific disabilities, family roles, and intervention, The fifth edition of this book features new chapters on substance abuse, HIV and AIDS, Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, behavior management, transitions to adulthood, and health care in the 21st century.

This video is about the how child development is impacted by sensory issues, and it also discusses how certain sensory-rich settings can affect the growth of regular kids and children with disabilities.

This video illustrates the experiences of young children with medical problems who are physically weak or disabled in a transitional care facility. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The purpose of this handbook is to provide information about creating collaborative IEPs in a format that is easily understood by all who might be involved in the IEP process. Includes: 1 handbook

Examines the struggles engaged in by parents and siblings to integrate a handicapped or sick newborn into the family. Available in VHS format only.

This two-part video (22 min. each) emphasizes the effects of team process on the recipients of team service, young children with disabilities, and their families. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Parents are children’s first and most influential teachers. This book provides strategies for teaching the life skills children from age three through young adulthood need to live as independently as possible.

In this video a pediatric optometrist demonstrates a comprehensive battery of vision tests that are appropriate for infants under 12 months of age. Includes: VHS or DVD

Parents discuss the first time a doctor or other health professional gave a diagnosis or identified a developmental delay. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video and facilitator's guide builds understanding of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) process while promoting family-centered approaches to service. Available in VHS format only.

This video shows children with chronic conditions practicing karate, enjoying summer camp, playing soccer, perfecting scouting skills, playing musical instruments, driving cart racers, and having fun. Includes: VHS

The focus is on the family's hopes for the children, the parents' understanding of the boys' disabilities and abilities, EI services available, the parents' employment difficulties, and the support from the extended family and the church community. In Spanish with subtitles. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Social competence and mastery of communication skills are vital for children with multiple disabilities. This series discusses assessment methods appropriate for any child with severe disabiltites and offers keys to making reliable observations. Includes: Three VHS/DVD

Featuring Pamela Winton, Ph.D. this instructional program will help early interventionists develop initial skills in conducting the Family Focused Interview.

This series was developed for parents, educators, and providers who care for and serve children with special needs.

The focus is on the strengths of shared caregiving, the family's hopes for the child, the tensions between mother and grandmother over discipline and family rules, the difficulties with getting EI services, and making the transition from early intervention to public schooling. Available in DVD and VHS formats.