Being Part of a Team: Team-based Care Support Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and their Families

Being Part of a Team: Team-based Care Support Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and their Families

(Michael Shafer, Ph.D.)

• Develop skills and strategies to enhance your effectiveness as an interprofessional team member providing support and services to children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families. 
• Compare and contrast the changing team-based care models for providing support and services to children with neurodevelopmental disabilities across developmental period (birth – 22).
• Compare and contrast inter-professional, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary team-based care models and best practices.
• Gain an awareness of best practices of interagency coordination and collaboration in providing support and services to children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families.