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  1. Hello. My name is Maria Davis and the title of
  2. my speech is benefits of early intervention.
  3. One out of every six Children in the United States
  4. face a developmental disability or disabling behavioral problem.
  5. However, less than 50 of those Children are diagnosed or
  6. treated before they enter school.
  7. And nationwide, only 10 of Children receive early intervention services
  8. or support.
  9. Those statistics are startling.
  10. However, they're true and parents and guardians alike what the
  11. best for their Children.
  12. Early education is the best chance at Children reaching their
  13. full potential when they face developmental challenges or physical challenges.
  14. I have worked in childcare for several years and after
  15. doing much research on government and medical programs, they found
  16. that it is critical for early intervention programs to be
  17. accessed for Children with these challenges.
  18. Early intervention can afford developmentally challenged infants and young Children
  19. with vital adequate education and care.
  20. So let's first look at what exactly early intervention is.
  21. By definition.
  22. Early intervention is a term used to describe the support
  23. and services given to Children who experienced developmental and physical
  24. delays. According to the CDC.
  25. Early intervention is quote, the term used to describe the
  26. support and services that are available to babies and young
  27. Children with developmental delays and disabilities and their families.
  28. End quote early intervention usually begins from birth until three
  29. years old, when Children are more likely to receive and
  30. adapt information and learn.
  31. These services can include physical therapy, nutrition therapy and according
  32. to infants and young Children, a medical journal, they say
  33. quote occupational therapy and speech language pathologists provide services for
  34. almost half of the Children enrolled in early intervention programs
  35. nationally. End quote parents can also provide can notice delayed
  36. activity in Children, such as not hitting certain milestones of
  37. crawling, walking or talking on certain ages.
  38. And these services can be extended to family dynamics, such
  39. as family counseling, and it can help improve and assist
  40. Children on the everyday basis with families are encouraged and
  41. taught how to deal with these delays that Children may
  42. face. And these services can come in many forms, such
  43. as hearing gates for Children who uh face hearing problems
  44. or help improve cognitive skills.
  45. They use technologies such as tablets such as this one,
  46. to download applications and other things to help encourage cognitive
  47. skills and communication on an individualized level.
  48. So now that we know what early intervention is, let's
  49. now look at the benefits when it's in five, early
  50. intervention can have a long and short term effects on
  51. Children and their lives.
  52. The rand corporation, which is a recognized in longstanding research
  53. organization and think tank, founded in 2000 and five, study
  54. that when Children are an early intervention trained by trained
  55. professionals and research specialist, they have a greater chance at
  56. long term success.
  57. And moving on to Science magazine dot org, which is
  58. a very trusted science or scientific source, published an article
  59. showing the long term effects of early intervention, saying that
  60. when Children received early intervention from quote birth until five
  61. years old, enjoyed better physical health benefits in their mid
  62. thirties than their peers, end quote.
  63. And these Children are less likely to drop out of
  64. high school and have a greater economic impact on society.
  65. According to Nobel prize winning economist James Heckman, he found
  66. that in his study in which he grabbed right here,
  67. that the greatest economic impact of investing in early childhood
  68. learning came when Children were invested in prenatal years and
  69. early childhood versus when they were in adulthood for job
  70. training. It paid off greater in the long term to
  71. invest when Children were younger.
  72. And according to early intervention foundation, although certain risk factors
  73. cannot be predetermined, those that can be quote help identify
  74. Children who are vulnerable and who may need extra support,
  75. quote unquote identifying potential risk can help mitigate the damages
  76. for Children in the long term, such as Children who
  77. have lived in low income homes, or who have parents
  78. who have mental health issues jumping in front of these
  79. issues before they turn into something negative can definitely help
  80. impact the child's life.
  81. So now we've discussed early intervention and the unexpected benefits
  82. for society and the expected benefits for Children on individual
  83. levels. Let's look at how these services and supports can
  84. be accessed for the child.
  85. Parents play a pivotal role in helping access help for
  86. their Children.
  87. Parents may notice their Children not not reaching certain milestones
  88. like walking, talking or interacting, and they can actually go
  89. in without a referral and get help from a psychologist
  90. or resource specialists such as speech pathologist without a doctor's
  91. referral. And most of these programs are low for low
  92. income or cost, no cost or low cost or these
  93. parents. And there's something called I.
  94. S. F.
  95. P. I.
  96. S. F.
  97. P. Is short for individualized family service plan.
  98. And this individual individualized family service plan is used for
  99. with the support team and parents for the benefit of
  100. the child.
  101. And parents will usually fill out a form that looks
  102. like this one here.
  103. And this individualized family service plan is a form in
  104. which the parent will fill out of their name and
  105. the child's information and they will sit down with a
  106. specialist of the speech pathologist or physical therapist where they
  107. come up with a plan to benefit the child in
  108. the long run.
  109. And actually the Pacer Center goes into more detail with
  110. this program.
  111. And they say that the I.
  112. S. F.
  113. P. Quote list the early intervention services that will best
  114. help reach the outcome and describe when, where and how
  115. the services will be delivered.
  116. So in this sheet here it will go into further
  117. detail of the I.
  118. F. S.
  119. P. Pro plan where the parent will go into list
  120. goals and the strengths of the child and when they
  121. were like the child to reach these specific goals.
  122. Which can definitely get everyone on the same page.
  123. So as you can see, early intervention can help decrease
  124. the physical and developmental delays.
  125. Effects on a child.
  126. And intervention can have short and long term positive effects
  127. on a child.
  128. And also it is essential for parents to advocate for
  129. their Children in order to access help for them.
  130. Early intervention can afford Children across the nation with specialist
  131. and adequate vital education and care for their Children's success
  132. with access to programs that are accessible through early intervention
  133. services. Those one out of six Children can receive all
  134. the help that they need.
  135. A well known tibetan proverb says a child without education
  136. is like a bird without links.
  137. Every parent wants the best for their child and every
  138. child deserves to fly.
  139. Thank you for your time and your attention.