Distance Counseling for Parents in Early Intervention: A Competence-Based Approach

The article outlines the methodological framework, methods, tools and procedures for implementation of distance counseling of parents in early intervention within the competence-based approach. The approach testing was carried out during 2 years in 29 mothers of children aged 1 year and 4 months to 5,5 years with various diagnoses: “childhood autism” (n=12), “Down syndrome, unspecified” (n=3), “cerebral palsy, unspecified” (n=7), “other specified chromosome abnormalities” (n=4), “mixed specific developmental disorder” (n=1), “pervasive developmental disorder, unspecified” (n=2). Implementation of the approach, as well as its possibilities and limitations, are pointed out in the description of 2 cases.

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