Early Childhood Intervention Case Study

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Mr. and Mrs. Munoz can actually get Special Education Early Childhood Intervention for their daughter Camila. Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) is available to children from the age of birth to three years of age. ECI helps young children, like Camila, that have developmental delays and children with disabilities. As a parent, if you suspect that your child has problems with their growth or their abilities contact ECI. The parent can make a referral in order to get the child evaluated. If approved to receive ECI services, the child’s service coordinator and the parent work together in order to create an Individual Family Service Plan for the child. The Individual Family Service Plan will benefit the needs of your child. Mostly all services …show more content…

Thanks to the ECI, children can get the services that are essential to their learning. In Camila’s case she might need speech therapy due to her cleft palate surgery. The very first step towards speech therapy is determining what kind of speech impediment she might have. Speech therapy helps with articulation, fluency, resonance, and oral feeding problems. It also treats receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language problems. If Camila develops feeding issues after surgery, speech therapy can help her. They provide therapy for feeding and swallowing, they teach children how to strengthen their mouth muscles by exercising their jaw, lip, and tongue. Speech therapy essentially allows children to improve their language skills at a young age (Patino, n.d.). Before this assignment, I did not know that children could get help from ECI at the early age of birth. It is truly amazing to me that there are good programs that are placed to help children with disabilities. Personally, I do not know anyone that was born with a cleft palate but now that I have gained some knowledge with this assignment I will be able to help parents if they are in need of

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