Early Intervention

Early intervention in Pennsylvania is a service and support system designed to help families with children with developmental delays. Early intervention builds upon the  natural learning occurring in those first few years. With your help, early intervention services and supports can enhance your child's development by...

• answering your questions about your child's development;

• assisting you to interact with you child throughout daily routines at home and in the community;

• enhancing your child's developmental and educational growth;

• supporting you child with developmental delays to become more independent;

• preventing the need for more and costly intervention in the future; and

• supporting communities to become more aware of the gifts and abilities of  all its children.

Who is eligible for Early Intervention services ?

Infants and Toddlers (birth to three years of age who have):

• a significant delay in one or more areas of development;

• a specialist's determination that there is a delay even though it doesn't show up on the assessments (called informed clinical opinion)

• known physical or mental conditions which have a high probability for developmental delays