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HELP® is a widely-used, family-centered, curriculum-based assessment for use by professionals working with infants, toddlers, young children, and their families: As a curriculum-based assessment, HELP is not standardized; it is used for identifying needs, tracking growth and development, and determining "next steps" (target objectives). It offers play-based activities and intervention strategies for each skill.
HELP is comprehensive and developmentally sequenced -- covers 685 skills (birth-3 years) and 622 skills (3-6 years) in the six domains: Cognitive, Language, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Social, and Self-Help.
HELP promotes a cross-disciplinary, integrated approach - used by physical, speech, and occupational therapists, early childhood educators, infant specialists, psychologists, social workers, and nurses.
HELP focuses on the whole child -- the importance of supportive environments and interactions, building on strengths and providing activities for working on specific needs.
Each skill has a unique ID number for easy cross-reference across all the HELP products.
Quotes from Users
". . . HELP is a remarkable set of resources...complete and comprehensive...The most widely used of these [curriculum-based assessments] is the HELP Curriculum:"
-LINKing Assessment and Early Intervention
". . . (one) of the most typically used instruments (is) the Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)."
-Meeting Early Intervention Challenges
"The HELP (Hawaii) system has no equals when it comes to comprehensive assessment and intervention."
-Coordinator, ECH Program
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Inside HELP - Administration
Stephanie Parks, M.A.
Comprehensive assessment administration guidelines and resource for using HELP (0-3). Necessary for proper use of HELP.
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HELP Strands (0-3)
Stephanie Parks, M.A.
Developmental assessment record/booklet of 685 skills grouped into 58 strands for easier planning of "next steps"/objectives
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HELP at Home--2nd Edition (0-3)
Stephanie Parks, M.A., Setsu Furuno, Ph.D., et al.
540 pages of unique, reproducible, ready-to-use parent handouts to help you make parent involvement easy and effective!
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HELP Charts (0-3)
Based on the original HELP Charts by Furuno, et al.
Complete visual tracking of progress with staff and family
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HELP Activity Guide
Setsu Furuno, Ph.D., et al.
Effective curriculum and in-program activities for each HELP skill (0-3 years)
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HELP for Preschoolers Activities at Home
VORT Corporation
Assessment Procedures and Instructional Activities in one easy-to-use tool. 300 pages of parent handouts -- ready to copy -- indexed by skill.
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