This text based course is a transcript of the live webinar titled, "Young Children’s Participation: Contemporary Theory and Assessment Approaches to Guide Best Practice", presented by Mary Khetani, Sc.D., OTR.
>> Dr. Mary Khetani: I bring a background of a practitioner, a researcher, and a parent to the topic of young children’s participation. Some of you may bring multiple perspectives as well to this topic and to your learning today. I would like to start by giving you a road map to the presentation.
Introduction/Roadmap
There are essentially four major areas that I would like for us to dive into in this next hour. The first is grounding ourselves in the significance of the topic of young children’s participation as an important service related outcome. It has been internationally recognized as an important, but very complex outcome of service delivery when we are working with individuals with disabling conditions across the life course. It is important to remind ourselves of that and the conversation that has been ongoing about young children’s participation. We need to acknowledge the progress that we have made as a profession and as a broader interdisciplinary field of professionals who are interested in young children’s participation.
The second part of this presentation is trying to break down or unpackage this complex concept of participation into three major components that have been honed in on for assessment and intervention purposes. Where most of the work in the field has been up to this point is trying to define this complex concept in a way so that it can be acted upon or responded to systematically in practice.
