The Coping With and Caring for Infants With Special Needs Intervention in Down Syndrome Infants

The early intervention programme for infants and young children focuses on the active inclusion of the whole family. The coaching of parents is a central component. Parents learn how they can independently and optimally support their child's development as part of the child's everyday life. The programme was developed at the beginning of the 2000s in the Netherlands by child physiotherapist Tineke Dirks and professor of developmental neurology Mijna Hadders-Algra.

Pediatric physiotherapy techniques aimed at improving the development of the baby and young child from manual therapy tools, or baby management.