Early Intervention

Early intervention is a term used to apply to treatment at an early age. Studies prove that when therapy is initiated early on (prior to school age), the prognosis for improvement is much greater.

The brains of younger children are more elastic (susceptible to change) than those of older children and adults. Additionally, early intervention may assist children who are at-risk for multiple disabilities and reduce their chances of acquiring more severe learning handicaps that could affect academics later in life.

As students enter school and continue to require therapy, this therapy is usually less frequent, less intense, and generally requires the child to miss some of his or her school day to be “pulled out” of class for therapy.

Early intervention is now thought of as the standard of care for therapy.

Early intervention team members may include a Speech Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, and/or Developmental Specialist.

Some of our younger kiddos