Early Intervention offers services to families with kids from birth to age three who have disabilities or delays in their development.
Early Intervention helps families by coaching or showing them how to help their child learn in their everyday routines and environments. It also provides services that help kids learn and grow, while also respecting the strengths and diversity of each family.
These services help kids to grow in areas like communication, cognition, motor skills, physical, social and emotional, behavioral and adaptive areas.
Benefits of early intervention:
- Therapy services are offered in the home at no cost to the families
- Promotes growth and development to attain developmental milestones through play
- Research has shown early treatment in children is better for resolution of developmental delays
- The therapist provides treatment and education for the family
If you are concerned about your child’s development or would like to learn more about early intervention services, contact the CONNECT Hotline, at 800.692.7288. You may also contact the Allegheny County Service Coordination Unit, The Alliance for Infants and Toddlers, at 412.885.6000, or by visiting www.afit.org.
As a parent or guardian, you have a choice to select The Children’s Institute as your provider for early intervention services.
Eligibility for services are but not limited to:
- Newborn to 3 years old
- Have a diagnosis that may lead to development delay
- A specialist evaluates a developmental delay