Early intervention can have a tremendous impact on your child’s development and set your child and family on the right path. In my experience working with thousands of children with autism, I’ve seen children excel in all areas of development, including language, cognitive, and social abilities.
The greatest results are possible when a program has five essential features:
1. Integrated Medical Care
Medical evaluation and treatment can help to identify the underlying causes of autism so that therapies can be targeted to your child’s unique neurobiological profile. It’s important to have a medical team that collaborates with your therapists to bring this knowledge into your child’s broader therapy program.
2. Intensive Implementation
An early intervention program should include 20-40 hours of therapeutic services each week across multiple contexts in your child’s life. Common goals should be shared across different services, and therapists should collaborate closely with each other to reach these shared goals.
3. Center-Based and Home-Based Services
An optimal program should include center-based and home-based services to target foundational goals that will prepare your child for success in the home, school, and community.
4. Individual and Group Therapies
Individual therapy sessions provide the opportunity to learn new skills with the one-to-one support of an instructor, while group sessions offer the opportunity to interact with other children and develop peer relationships.
5. Family Engagement
At its core, early intervention is about empowering parents and other family members to be the primary agents of change in their child’s learning and development. As your skills grow, so will your child’s!
To learn more about Autism, Cortica’s Early Intervention Program, or our local center, please visit: https://www.corticacare.com/
**Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post from Macaroni Kid National and Suzanne Goh, M.D., Pediatric Neurologist, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Cortica**
