Program Details

Level 1 – Entry Level
Description
The introductory program provides participants with a basic understanding of the HEP Approach. Upon completion of this program, participants will acquire the following skills:
1. Look at behavior and development from an ecological theory perspective.
2. Enriched environment and plasticity,
3. Intervention Principles for the HEP Approach
4. Establish a framework for the HEP Approach intervention process.
Program Flow
- Video presentation: Typically, developing infants have developmental difficulties.
- Discussion/Q&ATheoretical presentation: Ecological theories of development
- Video presentation: Typically, developing infants have developmental difficulties.
- Discussion/Q&ATheoretical presentation: enriched environment and plasticity
- Video presentation: the contrast between an enriched environment and a deprived environment.
- Discussion/Q&ATheoretical presentation: the HEP Approach’s intervention principles.
- Video presentation: demonstration of intervention principles in the HEP approach
- Discussion/Q&ATheoretical presentation: the intervention process in the HEP Approach.
- Video presentation: the intervention process in the HEP Approach, using case studies as examples.
- Discussion/Q&A
Who is the program for?
All professionals working with children and interested families can participate in the program.
Speakers
Aymen BALIKCI, PT, PhD
Teresa A. May-Benson