Open AccessEarly Intervention Services: Effectively Supporting Māori Children and Their Families.
Author(s) -
Mere Berryman,
Paul Woller
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
kairaranga
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-9021
pISSN - 1175-9232
DOI - 10.54322/kairaranga.v12i1.149
Subject(s) - christian ministry , intervention (counseling) , conversation , service (business) , early childhood , service provider , psychology , early childhood education , public relations , nursing , pedagogy , developmental psychology , medicine , political science , business , communication , marketing , law
This paper examines Early Intervention (EI) service provision from within one Ministry of Education region in New Zealand. It does this in order to better understand what works well and what needs to change if children from Maori families, of Early Childhood age, are to be provided with the most effective EI services. By engaging with Maori families in group-focused interviews-as- conversation, and then with their service providers, about their experiences of working together, researchers learned about what could provide effective services for other Maori families in similar situations.