Early intervention and family participation: APAES’ professionals report

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Tahena Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Falcão, Alessandra Pereira, de Oliveira, Ana Paula, Rolim Rodrigues, Olga Maria Piazentin, Pereira, Veronica Aparecida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/31866
• topic: Family; Special Education; Early intervention.; Familia; Educación Especial; Intervención temprana.; Família; Educação Especial; Intervenção Precoce.

This study aimed to describe, based on reports from different professionals, the participation of family members in Early Intervention (EI) Services offered by Associations of Parents and Friends of the Exceptional (APAES) in the State of São Paulo, and to investigate what actions these institutions promote to foster the integration of this public to their treatment sessions, and whether there is continuity of the interventions at the patients’ homes. The participants were twenty-three professionals from different areas acting as responsible for IP service 22 APAES the state of São Paulo. These professionals answered an online survey in order to provide sociodemographic data and information regarding family members’ participation in EI services regarding: main activities/ functions executed by family members in EI, which family members participate in EI, frequency of the sessions, profile of the participating families, identified difficulties for the continuance of the proposed interventions and the results obtained by this service. The results of the study point out that the professionals value the participation of family members and that they attribute to this participation the improvement of the children. However, to the 67% of them sessions involving family members are made when the professionals identify specific needs in the child. Family non-involvement is attributed to the lack of available time to do what was suggested by the professionals. Such results are probably due to treatment not being family-centred. For further studies it is suggested to investigate a greater number of institutions that do the EI process whose results may or may not confirm those obtained in this study.