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Summary: Early intervention, family and community support
Review: The book is a comprehensive, excellent early childhood and early intervention personnel preparation textbook by university authors (University of North Carolina) with nationwide experience in the field. The authors include creative teaching strategies, such as court debates and "context collages" with Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, and economic reports, in describing coaching models for use by practiitioners and in higher education. The authors support interdisciplinary and community-based approaches, parent-professional partnerships (see, self-advocacy) with an ecological framework (human development) for theory and practice. Highlighting the leading service practices of the 1990s (e.g., service coordination, family-centered practices, natural environments), the authors integrate these approaches into interdisciplinary practica, distance education, and university advocacy in public policy. Disappointing to this author (Racino, Personnel preparation in disability and community life, 2000), was the continued separation of leading work in the fields of family, housing and community support philosophy and practices (e.g., family support programs and centers in the community, community support professionals ) from the early intervention sectors (e.g., reliance on clinic services and multidisciplinary clinical professionals). As a certified higher education program in the US, the book offers practitioners, policymakers, families and their children, educators, and field trainers, a wealth of information on the federal, state, and local approaches to early intervention which continue to move closer to community, wholistic, and family-centered approaches.
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