Routines Based Interview
The Routines Based Interview (RBI) training practices are required steps for any services coordinator or early intervention provider interested in using the RBI as their child and family assessment, as per 92 NAC 52 and 480 NAC 1. The 7 components are linked below, with components 2 and 5 in webinar and PowerPoint format.
NE RBI Required Training Practices
Writing Functional Child and Family Outcomes
Updated RBI Implementation Checklist
The RBI Implementation Checklist Scoring Rules were recorded during a coaches meeting prior to, and in preparation for a Routines Based Interview Boot Camp. Tina Kilgore facilitates a review of the Implementation Checklist (updated 2020) with a group of RBI internal coaches from some of the PRTs across the state. We wanted to make it available to all PRTs to encourage its use to build coaching consistency within your early intervention teams. Tina references the Family Priorities Form, the RBI Question Tracker Matrix and Tips for Coaching at RBI Boot Camps during the video.
Please open/print the RBI Implementation Checklist Scoring Rules while you watch the video so that you can follow along, make notes, etc. Also, RBI internal coaches should be familiar with Nebraska's RBI Fidelity Process.
If you have questions about the checklist please contact your regional RBEI TA.
Following are resources that can be helpful to teams who are in the process of learning how to conduct the RBI.
MEISR Crosswalk with GOLD
RBI Video Clips
The following clips are from the same RBI. They represent 2 routines and the list of priorities. The routines include engagement, independence and social relationship questions. The list of priorities demonstrates how the interviewer facilitates more priorities from the parent using information from the RBI.
Frequently Asked Questions around the RBI
Secondary Interviewer Training
The role of the secondary interviewer in an RBI is an important one. The secondary interviewer is primarily responsible for taking good notes—notes written in the parent's words; capturing the parent’s concerns. An effective secondary interviewer helps the primary interviewer with questions during the RBI. Additional questions from the secondary are especially helpful as discussion of each routine comes to a close—prior to the parent satisfaction rating. After all routines have been reviewed, the role of the secondary interviewer is to “recap” the interview with the family. “Recaps” take practice….they must accurately reflect the information shared by the family in a succinct and informative manner.
The following video was recorded in April of 2016 at ESU10 in Kearney. It features the RBI coaches from PRT 10 --Kristine Einspahr, Mikki Bohlen, Kate Boston and Jamie Lewis. This training was designed to raise awareness of the RBI across their PRT but more importantly, to highlight the “key” responsibilities of the secondary interviewer. We thank them for the development of this video and very much appreciate their willingness to share it with PRTs across the state. Please take time to review the handouts used including a survey used pre and post to determine the learning of participants.
Using In-Depth Questions in the RBI
These sets of video clips were created by Amy Jenkins of the Siskin Children's Institute as examples of how to best explore family routines during the RBI. The first clip in each set depicts the basic structure of the RBI without the use of in-depth questions, i.e. examples which provide an ineffective description of a family routine. The second clip in each set shows the same routine as the first, but this time the interviewer uses good follow up questions and as a result, gets a rich description of the family routine that providers a clear picture of the child within the context of his family activity, the result of an effective RBI.
Outings 1 - Few In-Depth Questions
Outings 2 - Lots of In-Depth Questions
Wake Up Time 1 - Few In-Depth Questions
Wake Up Time 2 - Lots of In-Depth Questions
Providing Feedback
View clips that illustrate effective and ineffective examples of giving feedback.