Our Early Intervention programs are individualized, focusing on health, educational, and therapeutic services designed to improve outcomes for children with disabilities or delays. We specialize in the new skills that babies typically develop during the first years of life, such as physical, cognitive, communication, social/emotional, and self-help. Take a closer look at the comprehensive services and programs we offer:

Speech and Language Therapy:
The inability to communicate affects your child's ability to learn, to develop and maintain social relations, to become independent, and to function effectively in society. Speech and language therapy focuses on the development of functional communication which includes the use of intention, pragmatics, sound production, comprehension, and oral-motor development. It can also help address feeding and swallowing issues. Our goal is to increase communication skills for children, including the multicultural and bilingual population, with language delays, hearing loss, and difficulty producing speech sounds. Our certified speech-language therapists provide services for the habilitation, rehabilitation, or prevention of communicative or oropharyngeal disorders and delays in development of communication skills. 

Occupational Therapy:
Early intervention occupational therapy focuses on children's performance related to tasks of daily living and fine motor skills such as appropriate play and interaction, motor, sensory, and learning skills. Our fully certified therapists develop goals, design therapeutic programs, and select activities to meet the developmental interests and needs of each child. Occupational therapists work directly with children and their families in order to develop practical skills for activities of daily living with the purpose of fostering the child’s independence in their home environment.

Physical Therapy:
Our physical therapists are specialists trained to provide treatment to maintain and restore maximum movement and function to the children they serve. They are concerned with providing the child necessary environmental stimuli and proper cues to enhance development. Our focus is to enhance the child's balance and movement and overall gross motor skills. Our physical therapists provide appropriate therapy interventions for the child and involve core team members, families, and caregivers in the implementation of those therapy interventions for the maximum benefit of the child.

Psychology:
Early intervention psychologists administer psychological and developmental tests, as well as other assessment procedures.  They then interpret the results and integrate the outcome with the information obtained from other sources to develop and manage a program of psychological counseling for children and parents, family counseling, consultation on child development, parent training, and education programs.

Interpretation/Translation:
Our interpreters/translators are fluent in at least two languages and are able to convert one language into another, whether it is spoken or written words. We are able to ensure that the children and parents in the multicultural-bilingual population have the same opportunities as others who speak English. Languages spoken by our interpreters/translators include Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, American Sign Language, and many more.

Special Instruction/Developmental Therapy:
Early intervention special instructors/developmental therapists serve families in many different ways that contribute to the cognitive and social development of a child.  The special instructor/developmental therapists aids families in the design of environments and activities that promote the child’s general development, participates in curriculum planning aimed at meeting the goals laid out in the child’s IFSP, provides families with information, skills, and support related to enhancing the skill development of the child, and works with the child and family to enhance the child’s development. Special instructors/developmental therapists also help families incorporate the different goals on which the child is working into the family’s daily routines, while identifying and guiding the family through the next steps of supporting the child’s development.

Behavioral Therapy:
Our behavioral therapy specialists teach children how to modify their behavior within certain environments. Behavioral therapy is a collaborative therapy, allowing the patient to play an active role in the treatment process. It can be a useful tool for maladaptive behavior and organic disorders. There are a number of techniques used in behavioral therapy to help the children we serve that depend on the individual child and the severity of the symptoms surrounding the behavioral problem.

Social Work:
Early intervention social workers provide support and advocacy to the families of the children that they serve.  They provide family-focused assessments, behavior management techniques, parent education and/or training, resources to family support and community organizations, and crisis intervention, counseling and/or conflict resolution as necessary.  Social Workers work with the problems in a child’s and family’s living situation that affect the child’s maximum utilization of early intervention services.