Contributions from: Ana Paula Cruz, Daniel Gongcalves, Daniella Martins, Helena Carvalho, Jacqueline Robaina, Renata Muniz
Abstract
In the field of promoting and the prevention of early development, the early intervention has been proving effective in the improvement of the development so much of the normal child as of the exceptional children. This study has a principal purpose to present a model of training parents to use techniques to stimulate your babies and, consequently, to prevent future behaviour problems. In a university day care centre, the study occurred with a group of babies (7 to 10 months old) and their parents (mother or father). In the first instance, the parents were contacted to do an interview to investigate about the child's development (mental and physical health) and the psychosocial aspects of babies' families. After this step, babies were evaluated by Uzgiris-Hunt Ordinal Scales of Cognitive Development. On the second occasion, after first interview and investigated environment stimulation by Home inventory, the parent and the baby were observed in their homes in three situations: bath situation, play situation and feed situation. It observed spontaneous behaviours of parent to stimulate your baby in that situation. In the third time, the parent received information about early development and information about clues to stimulate their baby in different areas of human behaviour: cognitive, motor, linguistic, sensorial, social and emotional. In the last time, it observed parents and their babies in their homes in those three situations to see if parents were using information about clues to stimulated their baby. Data collection showed that the model of training parents to stimulate their babies had an efficacy to promote development because parents showed better performance in their interactions with their baby than before training model. Because of these results, the model of parents training show early intervention is a better tool to prevent and promote early development for normal and exceptional children.
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