Early Intervention- 16 Services

Early Intervention services are designed to meet the developmental needs of each child eligible for Early Intervention and the needs of the family related to enhancing the child's development. In addition to the services below we also provide:
early identification, screening and assessment services.

The following are types of Early Intervention Services:

1. Assistive Technology Device and assistive technology services means any items, piece of equipment or product system used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of children with disabilities and sevices necessary to use them.

2. Audiology means providing services for children with auditory impairment; determining the range, nature, and degree of hearing loss and degree of hearing loss; and auditory training, aural rehabilitation, speech reading and listening device orientation and training.

3. Family Training, Counseling and Home Visits means services provided, as appropriate, by social workers, psychologists, and other qualified personnel to assist the family of an eligible child in understanding the special needs of the child and enhancing the child's development.

4. Health Services necessary to enable the infant or toddler to benefit from the other Early Intervention Services.

5. Medical Services only for diagnostic or evaluation purposes means services provided by a licensed physician to determine a child's developmental status and need for Early Intervention Services.

6. Nursing Services includes assessment of health status for the purpose of providing nursing services, provision of nursing care to prevent health problems, restore or improve functioning and promote optimal health and development.

7. Nutrition Services includes assessment and developing appropriate plans to address nutritional needs of children and making referrals to appropriate community agencies.

8. Occupational Therapy includes services to help the child develop and improve self-help skills and adaptive behavior and play. The occupational therapist also addresses the young child's motor, sensory, and postural development.

9. Physical Therapy is designed to prevent or alleviate movement dysfunction through a program tailored to the individual child.

10. Psychological Services address issues related to learning, mental health, and development.

11. Service Coordination means the activities carried out by a service coordinator to assist and enable a child and their family to receive the rights, procedural safeguards, and services.

12. Social Work Services includes assessment, providing individual and family group counseling and coordinating community resources.

13. Special Instruction includes the design of learning environments and activities that promote the child's acquisition of skills in a variety of developmental areas.

14. Speech-Language Pathology includes identification of children with disorders or delays in communication skills, referrals for medical or other professional services and provision of services. Also includes sign language and cued language services where necessary.

15. Transportation and related costs that are necessary to enable an infant or toddler and the infant's or toddler's family to receive a service.

16. Vision Services means evaluation and assessment of visual functioning, referral for medical or other professional services, and communication skills training.

Other Services means services the IFSP team deems necessary.

For a full explanation of each Early Intervention Service, refer to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part C, Section 303.12.

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