MEISR Manual

Young children grow and learn when they participate fully in everyday routines and activities. Assess this critical dimension of child development with the MEISR, an easy-to-use tool for creating a profile of the functional behaviors of children from birth to 3 years of age. A rich learning opportunity for both families and professionalsand an ideal starting point for talking to parents about their childs functioningthe MEISR helps build an understanding of a childs engagement, independence, and social relationships within the context of 14 common family routines. Completed by caregivers and easy to use with them during home visits, the MEISR helps paint a picture of the childs functional abilities and highlights future learning opportunities. In this comprehensive MEISR manual, youll discover how to: introduce the MEISR to families implement and score the MEISR interpret results accurately review the MEISR with families and develop individualized intervention priorities integrate the Routines-Based Interview (RBI) with the MEISR use results of the MEISR to inform federal child outcome reporting monitor your programs effectiveness with the help of data from the MEISR Make the MEISR a part of your early intervention program, and youll have a powerful tool that helps families enhance natural learning opportunities and support their childs engagement.