Birth to 3 Primary Services
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Service coordination
Helps your family and child access early intervention services and undertsand your rights. Service coordinators schedule evaluations, help create the service plan, and connect you with what you need.
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Special Education
Engages the child in activities that support their learning and development. This includes ideas that help them grow, learn, play, and get along with others. Individualization strategies are shared to help the child’s learning, skills, and overall development.
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Occupational Therapy
Helps the child build new skills by practicing day-to-day activities. These new skills will help them play, move, and interact with the world around them. These services help increase the child’s ability to take part in daily routines and activities at home, in the community, and other places your family spends time.
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Physical Therapy
Helps support the child’s physical and muscle development. This helps them move, play, and participate in day-to-day activities. Physical therapy services also help reduce pain and prevent or minimize physical disabilities.
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Speech and Language Services
Help the child understand and use language. Speech services include identifying concerns and finding activities that can make clear speech sounds. Speech services might also help the child use a speech device and refer them to medical or other professional services when necessary.
Additional Services
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Hearing Services
Support to improve the child’s learning, communication, and interactions with others. This includes training and prevention. Hearing services help identify if the child has hearing impairments, the degree of hearing loss, and will make referrals for medicals and other services when necessary.
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Vision Services
Help a child with visual impairments learn, play, interact with others, communicate, find their way around, and move safely in the places they spend time. This is called mobility training. Mobility training increases the child’s participation in your family’s daily routines and activities. These services also include visual and other training that help with hand-eye coordination.
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Social Work Services
Help find and connect you with community resources and services that can help you make the most of early intervention. These services are based on your family’s needs or interests. You might be connected with educational or financial resources, parenting supports, family counseling, or other local resources.
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Sign Language and Cued Language Services
Helps a child learn to communicate in a way that works for them. These services help your family and child use sign language, cued language (handshapes that stand for different sounds) or spoken language. You can also access interpretation and transliteration services (such as amplification).
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Family Training, Counseling, and Home Visits
Help your family understand the special needs of the child and enhance the child’s development.
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Transportation and Related Costs
Fund travel and other activities that are needed to help your family and child get early intervention services.