Early Intervention (EI) is a common term used to describe the Illinois statewide program that includes 16 services available to families and children, supporting from birth to 3 years old.
Once a child's EI eligibility is determined, Early Intervention services for the family and child may include, but are not limited to: developmental, occupational, or physical therapy, speech language pathology, nursing and nutrition, and social work.
As one service within the EI Program, this focuses on three areas of child development: cognitive, social-emotional, and self-help skills.
A Developmental Therapist (DT) helps in teaching these foundational skills that are building blocks to other areas of development, such as language and motor skills.
This development work is building foundational skills of joint attention plus attention to toys and play partners, functional and appropriate play, imitation, accepting adult-direction, and making use of adult demonstrations.
This development focuses on facilitating positive peer interactions, behavior modification strategies, reducing challenging behavior, like - hitting, biting, tantrums - plus identification of emotions and labeling feelings, emotional and self-regulation strategies, support in transitions, and identification of self.
This area of therapy focuses on self skills such as potty-training readiness, independent dressing and feeding, creating and maintaining healthy sleep habits, and promoting autonomy.
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