Available Services

Family Training, Counseling and Home Visits
Services provided by social workers, psychologists or other qualified personnel, as appropriate, to assist the family of an infant or toddler with a disability in understanding the special needs of and enhancing the development of the infant or toddler.

Special Instruction
Designing the learning environments and activities that promote the acquisition of skills by an infant or toddler with a disability in a variety of developmental areas, including cognitive processes and social interaction.

Curriculum planning, including the planned interaction of personnel, materials and time and space that leads to achieving the outcomes on the IFSP.

Providing the family with information, skills and support related to enhancing the skill development of the infant or toddler with a disability.

Working with the infant or toddler with a disability and family to enhance the infant or toddler's development.

Speech-Language Pathology Services
Identification of communicative or swallowing disorders and delays in development of communication skills, including the diagnosis and appraisal of specific disorders and delays in those skills.

Referral for medical or other professional services necessary for the habilitation or rehabilitation of communicative or swallowing disorders and delays in development of communication skills.

Provision of services for the habilitation, rehabilitation or prevention of communicative or swallowing disorders and delays in development of communication skills.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window through which you look upon a stupendous prospect.
—William Dixon

Psychological services
Administering psychological and developmental tests and other assessment procedures.

Interpreting assessment results.

Obtaining, integrating and interpreting information about child behavior, and child and family conditions related to learning, mental health and development.

Planning and managing a program of psychological services, including psychological counseling for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their parents, family counseling, consultation on child development, parent training and education programs.

Service Coordination
The activities carried out by a service coordinator to assist and enable a child and the child's family to benefit from the rights and procedural safeguards and to receive the services that are authorized.

Occupational Therapy
Services to address the functional needs of an infant or toddler with a disability related to adaptive development, adaptive behavior and play, and sensory, motor and postural development, which are designed to improve the functional ability of the infant or toddler to perform tasks in home, school and community settings, and include the following: 

• Identification, assessment and intervention
• Adaptation of the environment, and selection, design, and fabrication of assistive and orthotic devices to facilitate development and promote the acquisition of functional skills.
• Prevention or minimization of the impact of initial or future impairment, delay in development or loss of functional ability.