Metanoia in Early Intervention: Transformation to a Family Centered Approach

Abstract

How did it happen? How did early intervention for young children with disabilities become so divorced from the family, so clinical, and so removed from science? In this article, I argue for a family-centered approach to early intervention, based on the literature. I describe some specific practices for implementing this approach as well as some instruments to measure the fidelity with which the practices are used. Finally, I discuss how the field is being transformed by a partnership between opportunity (the Routines-Based Model) and a changing mindset (Metanoia).