Naomi Younggren - Böcker

Young children grow and learn when they participate fully in everyday routines and activities. Assess this critical dimension of child development with the MEISR™, an easy-to-use tool for creating a profile of the functional behaviors of children from birth to 3 years of age.A rich learning opportunity for both families and professionals—and an ideal starting point for talking to parents about their child’s functioning—the MEISR helps build an understanding of a child’s engagement, independence, and social relationships within the context of 14 common family routines. Completed by caregivers and easy to use with them during home visits, the MEISR helps paint a picture of the child’s functional abilities and highlights future learning opportunities.In this comprehensive MEISR manual, you’ll discover how to:• introduce the MEISR to families • implement and score the MEISR • interpret results accurately• review the MEISR with families and develop individualized intervention priorities• integrate the Routines-Based Interview (RBI) with the MEISR• use results of the MEISR to inform federal child outcome reporting • monitor your program’s effectiveness with the help of data from the MEISRMake the MEISR a part of your early intervention program, and you’ll have a powerful tool that helps families enhance natural learning opportunities and support their child’s engagement.

Available in packs of 5, these are the 24-page forms needed to conduct the Measure of Engagement, Independence, and Social Relationships (MEISR™) assessment.Young children grow and learn when they participate fully in everyday routines and activities. Assess this critical dimension of child development with the MEISR™, an easy‐to‐use tool for creating a snapshot of the functional behaviors of children from birth to 3 years of age.A rich learning opportunity for both families and professionals—and an ideal starting point for talking to parents about their child's functioning—the MEISR helps build an understanding of a child's engagement, independence, and social relationships within the context of common family routines. Completed by caregivers and easy to use with them during home visits, the MEISR helps paint a picture of the child's functional abilities and highlights future learning opportunities.With the results of the MEISR, you canStart important conversations with families about their child's participation in everyday activitiesSupport child engagement—an important prerequisite to learningEmpower families to enhance natural learning opportunitiesHelp families choose functional skills to address within the IFSPHelp your team determine Child Outcome Summary (COS) ratingsDevelop individualized intervention priorities