Infants and Toddlers for Early Intervention

 Early Intervention is used to facilitate the normal development of pre-requisite verbal and non-verbal skills in infants; cognitive, social, and communication.

It helps infants who are at risk for developing language difficulties as a result of prematurity, low birth weight, medical complications, and traumatic injuries during pregnancy or after birth.

 Parents learn about their infant’s development and ways to stimulate the infant in play and interaction therapy at home. 

Early Intervention programs:

Indirect Monthly

The family and infant are interviewed and evaluated by a speech language pathologist who provides the family with specific long and short-term goals to be implemented in the home environment. The family visits the therapist to evaluate the infant’s progress, develop and implement new goals.

1st Visit- 1 hour session $250 with written report.  Follow up sessions are $65 for 30 minutes

Direct Individual Infant Stimulation Programs

The infants and family members attend the infant stimulation programs once or twice a week. The therapist works directly with the infant and parents to model play and interaction behaviors, which promote normal developmental patterns.

30 min. sessions $65

60 min. sessions $120

Direct Group Infant Stimulation programs

The infants and family members attend the infant stimulation programs in small groups once or twice a week. The therapist and parents take turns working with the infants using toys and music in interaction and play activities, which promote normal developmental patterns.

60-min. sessions Minimum of 3 parent-child groups

$55 per session per parent-child, for 6 classes. Payment in advance.

PLAY THERAPY PROGRAM

 INFANTS DEVELOPMENT

Birth to age three

 LOCALIZATION

Auditory -visual association enhancement through tracking and sound localization activities used to promote the learning of cause and effect relationships 

JOINT ATTENTION

Reenacting adult and infant interactions to foster the infant’s conceptual understanding between the adult’s spoken word and the objects they represent. This is believed to be the prerequisite for all communication.  

JOINT ACTION AND ROUTINES

Play routines and actions organized in ritualized activities involving sound and gesture interactions. These activities facilitate the development of dialogue turn taking and role shifting which become crucial to future conversational exchanges. 

VOCALIZATIONS

We help the infant expand the frequency, variety, or quality of their vocalizations leading to the first word through oral -motor and visual-auditory, stimulation techniques. 

COMMUNICATION INTENT

Help infants discover intentional communication through the use of gesture, vocalization, and single words in the form of early requests and statements.  

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THEMATIC PLAY

Speech and language thematic play and daily living activities use symbolic and non-symbolic agents to promote the infant’s development of social communication and early linguistic skills. 

INITIAL VOCABULARY

Stimulate the early understanding and use of language in social and physical events, which evolve within the infant’s conceptual grasp and immediate environment.

 Contact our office to schedule morning or evening appointments.

We participate with Oxford, Cigna, Devon, Horizon BCBS, and Aetna Medical Health Plans

Insurance only pays for a portion of these services and all services are prepaid.