Delivering Early Intervention to Children With Down Syndrome

"Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) an evidence-based, naturalistic language intervention that has been optimized to address the specific language and communication deficits associated with DS. EMT is a parent-implemented intervention that involves home-visits during which clinicians teach parents to support their child learning language during typical parent-child interactions at home (play with toys, music, book reading, and snack time). Clinicians follow an evidence-based instructional framework called Teach-Model-Coach-Review to teach parents language support strategies."