The Early Intervention Clinics were developed in response to the growing need for intervention programs for infants and preschoolers with speech and/or language learning impairments.

Experts in the field acknowledge that early intervention minimizes social and academic problems and increases self-esteem during the school years.

Early intervention minimizes social and academic problems...

In addition to providing this early treatment, our clinics also serve as special diagnostic staging areas for assessment of children's functional communication abilities in a natural setting.

The Early Intervention Clinics specialize in multiple diagnoses, including:

• Delayed Language Development, which may co-exist with a delay in at least one other area, such as motor skills, socialization, or self-help.
  
  
• Neurological Disorders including such non-developmental speech and language difficulties such as childhood aphasia and verbal apraxia.
  
  
• Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, including children with undiagnosed "autistic-like" characteristics.
  
  
• Sensory Motor Disorders, often seen with developmental delays and frequently manifested in poorly coordinated gross or fine movements or in the inability to integrate auditory, visual, and motor components.

• The EIC treats children from 18 months to 60 months of age, grouped according to developmental level.
• The EIC works with parents and other involved professionals to establish individual goals for each child.
• The EIC provides intensive speech and language therapy in a small group, preschool-like setting for children at risk for severe speech and language problems. Individual treatment is an integral part of the program.
• The EIC provides cognitive, motor, and sensory integration development, with specific individual goals developed by the speech and occupational therapists and implemented on a daily basis.
• The EIC's daily schedule includes circle/group time, oral motor stimulation, gross and fine motor activities, opportunities for social interaction, and individual speech/language therapy.
• The EIC has instructional aides assisting the primary therapist, with class size ranging from 4-6 children. Student/ teacher ratio is 2:1 or better.
• The EIC includes parent education during sessions and parent participation is encouraged.
• The EIC operates on a year-round schedule.
  
  Go to What the Experts Say.
  
  Go to Early Intervention.

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