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In the context of
a DIR intervention program, developmentally appropriate
practices are consistent relationships and interactions
that have been adapted and tailored to a child’s
individual differences and functional developmental
needs. Children with special needs have processing
challenges which make it hard for them to interact with
people and toys in a way that facilitates their growth and
development. Parents, teachers and therapists must use the
profile of the child’s functional developmental level,
individual differences in sensory processing, sensory
modulation, motor planning and sequencing and caregiver
and family interaction patterns to construct interactions
with the child that will be pleasurable as well as
developmentally meaningful and facilitating.
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