According to the U.S Department of Education, the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is a law that ensures services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. Parents who have children (ages 0-3) that are born with developmental delays or disabilities are strongly recommended to take advantage of the early intervention services offered by their state. Special education is the term that people are more familiar with. Parents do not understand why they simply can't wait to enroll their infant and/or toddler in special education when the child is old enough to attend school. The Early Intervention program helps children with disabilities/delays at an early age so parents do not have to wait to receive similar services
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Physical development of a child plays a large role in how they interact with people or things in their environment (ex: eating, walking, touching, hearing, etc.). The Early Intervention program offers therapy that helps improve the gross and fine motor skills of a child who has a disability. Merriam Webster dictionary defines "gross" as dealing with general aspects or broad distinctions. In reference to the human body examples of these would be the arms and legs. One type of therapy the program offers to improve a childs' motor skills is physical therapy.
According to Pathways.org from 0 to 3 months old one of the many things that an infant is supposed to be able to do is use their arms to push their body up while lying on their tummy. This is just one example of an exercise that an infant/toddler who needs to develop their gross motor skills would engage in if they were receiving physical therapy in the early intervention program. Physical therapy helps infants who have developmental delays in gross motor skills to exercise and improve muscle in areas such as legs and …show more content…
Children generally enroll their kids in preschool around the ages of 3 or 4. This is due to the fact that before starting preschool there is not a structured curriculum that children learn from. Generally from the ages of birth to 2 years old the way children often develop is through sensory processing. Therapy services such as Occupational Therapy can serve a dual purpose for a child with cognitive delays.
In an article written in Research in Developmental Disabilities it states, "...motor development are more strongly associated with cognition, and consequently language...". An example that supports this is how Occupational Therapy uses toys to work the muscles in a child who is having developmental delay in their gross and motor skills. However, at the same time toys such as building blocks and puzzles can teach children about shapes, sizes and patterns to help to improve their cognitive skills. As stated in the article Research in Developmental, communicating and understanding language is a part of cognition development. Hence, to help children with delays in this area the EI program offers speech language
Physical development of a child plays a large role in how they interact with people or things in their environment (ex: eating, walking, touching, hearing, etc.). The Early Intervention program offers therapy that helps improve the gross and fine motor skills of a child who has a disability. Merriam Webster dictionary defines "gross" as dealing with general aspects or broad distinctions. In reference to the human body examples of these would be the arms and legs. One type of therapy the program offers to improve a childs' motor skills is physical therapy.
According to Pathways.org from 0 to 3 months old one of the many things that an infant is supposed to be able to do is use their arms to push their body up while lying on their tummy. This is just one example of an exercise that an infant/toddler who needs to develop their gross motor skills would engage in if they were receiving physical therapy in the early intervention program. Physical therapy helps infants who have developmental delays in gross motor skills to exercise and improve muscle in areas such as legs and …show more content…
Children generally enroll their kids in preschool around the ages of 3 or 4. This is due to the fact that before starting preschool there is not a structured curriculum that children learn from. Generally from the ages of birth to 2 years old the way children often develop is through sensory processing. Therapy services such as Occupational Therapy can serve a dual purpose for a child with cognitive delays.
In an article written in Research in Developmental Disabilities it states, "...motor development are more strongly associated with cognition, and consequently language...". An example that supports this is how Occupational Therapy uses toys to work the muscles in a child who is having developmental delay in their gross and motor skills. However, at the same time toys such as building blocks and puzzles can teach children about shapes, sizes and patterns to help to improve their cognitive skills. As stated in the article Research in Developmental, communicating and understanding language is a part of cognition development. Hence, to help children with delays in this area the EI program offers speech language