Early Intervention

Transforming Early Intervention

Pace is committed to driving the systemic change that will make early and intensive intervention standard practice for every baby and toddler with a neurodisability.

Driving Systemic Change

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Driving Systemic Change

Early and intensive intervention has been shown to be highly effective for babies and toddlers with cerebral palsy and other neurodisabilities. However, it is very much the exception rather than the norm in many parts of the country.

Pace is committed to driving the systemic change that will make early and intensive intervention standard practice for every baby and toddler with a neurodisability.

We have embarked on a three-year journey to demonstrate to local authority and health commissioners the outcomes that can be achieved through early and intensive intervention, to articulate our practice so that it can be more easily replicated, and to train other providers in this transformational work.

Our Progress to Date

Funding

We have secured well over half of the funding required for the three-year programme, enabling us to provide free sessions for all children under the age of 2.

Families

We have significantly increased the number of babies and toddlers accessing our early intervention service.

Impact

We have established an outcome framework incorporating Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) and/or the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) for all of our children, together with a qualitative parental experience assessment.

Pace therapists working with a child with a neurodisability

Our 2022 Priorities

In 2022, we will:

  • Document our practice in ways that facilitate replication by other providers.
  • Develop online training programmes for other providers and practitioners.
  • Further embed our outcome measures and use them to develop impact data that can a) influence commissioner practice and b) inform our cost-benefit analysis.
  • Recruit a health economics practitioner to assist us with our cost-benefit analysis.
  • Begin to engage local authorities, particularly those with whom we have existing commissioning relationships, on the cost-benefit for early intervention commissioning.
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