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A Review of “The Art and Practice of Home Visiting: Early Intervention for Children With Special Needs and Their Families”

The focus of this book is to provide a handbook for early interventionists with specific relevance to those providing services under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The book pulls from various disciplines, such as education, medicine, allied health professions, and psychology, to present essential information that is clinically relevant to a wide audience of readers. This book is a valuable resource for a student in training, as well as the veteran provider. Foremost, the authors acknowledge that the strongest predictor of early intervention outcomes is the family’s relationship with a primary service provider. Based on this belief, a significant portion of the book is dedicated to helping the provider shift from a direct intervention focus on the child to an approach focused on the holistic needs of the family as related to the child. Three chapters are dedicated to understanding family systems (including responses to stress, sibling impact, and strategies to facilitate family empowerment), building home visitor–family relationships, and dealing with special family challenges. The information is familycentered and culturally competent, providing a framework for building solid relationships with families. Recognizing that all families may not be cooperative, the authors provide strategies for working under these special conditions. The authors also dedicate a full chapter to infant socioemotional development. The premise is that repeated positive relationships between a child