What is SPEEDI?

Supporting Play, Exploration, and Early Development Intervention (SPEEDI) is a play based therapy intervention based on early motor learning, motor control, infant engagement, and parent self-efficacy methods to provide holistic support to the infant-parent dyad starting as early as the NICU.   The core of the intervention includes a parent/therapist collaborative that works together to build parental confidence and enhance parent-child interactions. Consistent with Dynamic systems Theory and Embodied Cognition, SPEEDI uses motor experience to provide opportunity to learn about objects and social interaction with the goal of leading to enhancements in learning that support development across multiple domains.

Training for Providers

1. This site includes access to a 10 hour training on the SPEEDI intervention designed for physical occupational or developmental therapists. 
2. Trainees must complete each module, answer questions before moving to the next sections
3. A one on one session with a SPEEDI Trainer to review a video of you providing SPEEDI is available

Resource video for parents and caregivers

Each of the following sites will provide parents with access an overview of the materials, a printable activity booklet with activities that are appropriate from birth to 6 months.  Each booklet is customized to the needs of a specific group of infants.  Access to videos on the activities is also available through a monthly subscription. 

**Each parent will need a log in ID and password and be granted access based on the time they sign up for.

Resource for Hospital

A hospital can buy monthly or yearly access to material.  Group log in where access is to the videos without personal experience; These are more likely to be used in a hospital who buys access; 

Evidence of efficacy list reference 

Dusing SC, Burnsed JC, Brown SE, Harper AD, Hendricks-Munoz KD, Stevenson RD, Thacker LR, Molinini RM. Efficacy of Supporting Play Exploration and Early Development Intervention in the First Months of Life for Infants Born Very Preterm: 3-Arm Randomized Clinical Trial Protocol. Phys Ther. 2020 Aug 12;100(8):1343-1352. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzaa077. PMID: 32329778; PMCID: PMC7439229.

Dusing SC, Tripathi T, Marcinowski EC, Thacker LR, Brown LF, Hendricks-Muñoz KD. Supporting play exploration and early developmental intervention versus usual care to enhance development outcomes during the transition from the neonatal intensive care unit to home: a pilot randomized controlled trial. BMC Pediatr. 2018 Feb 9;18(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12887-018-1011-4. PMID: 29426320; PMCID: PMC5809115.

Dusing SC, Brown SE, Van Drew CM, Thacker LR, Hendricks-Muñoz KD. Supporting Play Exploration and Early Development Intervention From NICU to Home: A Feasibility Study. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2015 Fall;27(3):267-74. doi: 10.1097/PEP.0000000000000161. PMID: 26102168.

Finlayson F, Olsen J, Dusing SC, Guzzetta A, Eeles A, Spittle A. Supporting Play, Exploration, and Early Development Intervention (SPEEDI) for preterm infants: A feasibility randomised controlled trial in an Australian context. Early Hum Dev. 2020 Dec;151:105172. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105172. Epub 2020 Sep 1. PMID: 33137579.