Kristy Krantz, PT – Sprout Developmental Services Working in early intervention we have to be creative and support parents to think outside the box, tailoring learning and development activities to the specific likes and interests of the child and family. As a physical therapist, I often help parents explore how to incorporate strengthening activities into […]
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA We had another great COW, or Concept of the Week, discussion here at the Mecklenburg County CDSA, and yes, it still makes me happy to say we had a cow! 🙂 Anyway, we were focused this time on characteristics of coaching and what it does […]
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA Families feel a lot of things when we’re involved in their lives as early interventionists, and it’s important to validate those feelings throughout our time with them. Some are happy we’re there, some aren’t so stoked to have us around, and some probably don’t really […]
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA; Additional contribution by Peggy Kemp, Infant-Toddler Technical Assistance Specialist, Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS) Happy New Year everyone! EI Excellence is excited to be heading into the new year with new ideas and thinking about new ways to connect with early intervention professionals around the […]
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about how we do our work as early interventionists. It’s so interesting to me to think about how we all got into this field to begin with, and we’re all in different places when it comes to […]
Written by Cris Loesser, Unit Supervisor, Mecklenburg County CDSA The second cohort of M’Lisa Sheldon and Dathan Rush’s Master Coach training was coming to an end. For the past six months, I had been learning how to coach other Early Interventionists to become coaches to families. Despite being a total rookie, or maybe because of […]
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA OK, Mecklenburg County, if you haven’t come to a Table Talk Wednesday event yet, you’re really missing out! Our last event was one of our best yet with a full house as we talked about involving fathers in early intervention services. Our facilitators did a […]
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA We have officially started our third year of hosting Table Talk Wednesday events here in Mecklenburg County – yay us! After getting iced out back in February, we knew we wanted to try again and talk about assistive technology and how to use what families […]
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA Wow, summer is not joking around this year! We got together a few weeks ago for our monthly Table Talk Wednesday event here in Charlotte, NC, and boy, was it hot! Fortunately, we had ice cream to help cool us off as we talked about […]
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA The sun was out, and we were raring to go for this month’s Table Talk Wednesday event as we talked about using reflective questions with families as we’re providing supports. We had Maria Kosuda, Speech-Language Pathologist with the CDSA, and Sarah Turza, Developmental Specialist with the […]
