Early Intervention Service

Early Intervention is a term, which broadly refers to a wide range of experiences and supports provided to children, parents, and families during the pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood period of development. Early
Intervention is the introduction of planned programming deliberately timed and arranged to alter the anticipated or projected course of development.

The intervention is planned such that it suits the level of functioning and development. It is deliberately timed to suit the developmental age and condition of the child. The intervention is arranged in a pattern of normal
development.

How does it work?

Early Intervention Services include a range of healthcare, developmental,therapeutic, social, and cultural services for young children and their families. Children grow very rapidly in the early years and any stimulation at this stage helps to promote a child’s optimum growth and development.

Therefore it is presumed that early intervention provides the brain a second chance to revisit some of the developmental stages which have once been omitted or incomplete. The development of infants can be facilitated quantitatively and qualitatively.

What to expect?

Early intervention can be remedial when intervention is initiated at the earliest and it helps a child to develop to his/her fullest potential. Research shows that beginning intervention with the developmentally delayed child at
an early age produces effective results in terms of developmental progress in all areas of development such as motor, language, social, cognitive, and self-help skills. In children at risk for developing developmental delays at a later stage, it would help them overcome difficulties. For children with motor delays, in such cases where aids and appliances would help in overcoming the disability, then even in such cases early intervention would be
beneficial. In conditions like cretinism, if the diagnosis is done immediately after birth and treatment are initiated, then improvement and cure are a possibility. In such conditions, early intervention is curative.