About Early Intervention Centre

To support children in a holistic manner addressing Defects at Birth, Diseases, Deficiencies and those with developmental delays or Disabilities or Neuro-behavioral problems or children “at risk” for disabilities.

Offered Services under EIC at IIPD

  • Medical services – for diagnostic or evaluation purposes.
  • Paediatric Dental services – for problems of teeth, gums and oral hygiene in children from birth to 6 years esp.
  • Psychiatry services : for behavioural disorders , autism etc.
  • Occupational therapy & Physical therapy – services that relate to self-help skills, adaptive behaviour and play, sensory, motor, and postural development i.e. services to prevent or lessen movement’s difficulties and related functional problems. Sensory Integration, ortho-motor and feeding difficulties.
  • Psychological services – administering and interpreting psychological tests and evaluation of a child’s behaviour related to development, learning and mental health as well as planning services including counselling, consultation, parent training, behaviour modification and knowledge of appropriate education programs.
  • Cognition services – identifying cognitive delays and providing intervention to enhance cognitive development, adaptive and learning behaviours.
  • Audiology and Speech Language Pathology – identifying and providing services for children with hearing loss among children from birth to 6 years for both congenital deafness and also acquired deafness. 
  • Vision services – identification of children with visual disorders or delays and providing services and training to those children.
  • Health services – health-related services necessary to enable a child to benefit from other early intervention services
  • Lab services – for routine blood investigations among children to begin with but slowly would develop services for confirming congenital hypothyroidism, Thalassemia and Sickle cell anaemia or other inborn error of metabolism depending on the prevalence of such diseases.
  • Nutrition services – services that help address the nutritional needs of children that include identifying feeding skills, feeding problems, food habits, and food preferences.
  • Social support services – preparing an assessment of the social and emotional strengths and needs of a child and family, and providing individual or group services such as counselling. Socio economic evaluation of the family and linkages with the need based social services. 
  • Psycho-social services – includes designing learning environments and activities that promote the child’s development, providing families with information, skills, and support to enhance the child’s development.