What is Early Intervention?

Early intervention in Pennsylvania is services and supports 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 your child throughout daily routines at home and in the community;
	enhancing your child's developmental and educational growth;
	supporting your child with evelopmental 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.

"I hated what the future
might look like. I was so scared. Early Intervention
helped me become more positive about the good things that Kimmy does now and what she will be able to do."