title: A parent-implemented early intervention program for preschool children.
abstract: The Regional Intervention Program is a data-based, parent-implemented early intervention program providing comprehensive services to parents and their handicapped preschool children in a 26-county area of middle Tennessee. The program's service modules teach parents how to manage their child's behavior and how to teach their child essential prelanguage, language, and self-help skills. The preschool component develops the child's motor, language, and peer-interaction skills in order to prepare him for placement in a preschool in the community. A liaison module conducts follow-up on each family every six months. Several evaluation components ensure that the program is accountable to both the funding source and the families served.
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013714:Tennessee