Support for Early Intervention of the Children with disabilities

The early years of a child’s life are very important. Specially 0 to 3 years age needs extreme attention .However Some of the children and families face special challenges due to intellectual, developmental or physical disability and need extra help.The Early Intervention Program is a need based program that provides different types of early intervention services to infants and children with disabilities and their families. These services are designed to identify and meet children’s needs in five developmental areas. These are physical, cognitive, communication, social or emotional development, sensory and adaptive development..Benefits to society include reducing economic burden through a decreased need for special education.It has been observed that many of children with disability or special needs require early intervention services but do not get access to the services due to various factors Our team has also found that most of the people are ignorant about identification of eligible children for Early intervention .The project will aim to render the services for the poor and needy who can not access the services.

Early Intervention Services are provided by the Madhya Pradesh Viklang Sahayata Samiti through its Early Intervention Center . Following services are provided by MPVSS :

1. ·        Early identification of infants at risk
2. ·        Identification of children up to 12 year who need early intervention services 
3. ·        Early identification of developmental delays
4. ·        Identification needs of pertaining to assistive devices
5. ·        Acquisition of new behavior/skills
6. ·        Increase in independent functioning
7. ·        Early detection and prevention of secondary handicaps
8. ·        Minimizing the effects of the handicapping condition
9. ·        Cost effectiveness
10. ·       Psycho social support to families

Hundreds of children the Ujjain city are receiving benefit through Early Intervention Centre , there by reducing the risk to the child. . Those who could not visit center CBR workers provide home based services .