In what settings is the SCERTS Model designed to be implemented?
The SCERTS Model is designed to be a comprehensive framework that supports a child’s development of social-communicative and emotional regulatory abilities. Within the SCERTS Model, the facilitation of these core capacities through the implementation of transactional supports is viewed as essential for supporting a child’s active learning. Because the SCERTS Model is based on research on typical child development and social learning theories, it is critical that developmental goals and objectives for the domains of Social Communication and Emotional Regulation be addressed across a child’s educational, home, and community settings to successfully promote the child’s generalization of learning within natural activities and functional routines. The overriding goal of the SCERTS Model is to enable children to participate more successfully in developmentally appropriate activities with family members, adult partners, and peers in a variety of settings. Therefore, to ensure social success f
