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The EIRG is committed to supporting families during their child’s first years of life. During this time, babies learn to roll, crawl, sit, stand, walk, talk, and sing. But not all children develop in the same way. During this period of incredible growth, it is important to maximize early learning opportunities based on your child’s own pace.
We have compiled resources and tips to help families in supporting their child’s early development.
Resources
Early Intervention Clearinghouse
The Early Intervention Clearinghouse has extensive resources for both families and EI providers. They operate a lending library that provides free access to books, journals, and DVDs. You can find tip sheets, resource guides, and other helpful information on their website.
This website contains an extensive video library of well-regarded professionals discussing important topics ranging from therapy interventions to the vaccine controversy and causes of autism. Its content is monitored and approved by respected researchers in the field. The “resources” page contains detailed information regarding education and insurance policy as it varies by state.
The CDC website lists language, social, cognitive, and movement milestones for children two months to five years old along with video and photo examples of each skill. They also provide milestone checklists with tips on age-appropriate activities you can do with your child.
This website gives information and resources to parents and professionals who are interested in learning more about autism in young children.
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Written by Barry Prizant, PhD.
University of Washington’s READiLab
This webpage contains short videos that were created for parents of children who are newly diagnosed with autism. Topics range from understanding the diagnosis and parent reflections to setting up a treatment plan.
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
Written by Ellen Notbohm.
Social Communication Growth Chart
Developed by the FIRST WORDS® Project at Florida State University, the Social Communication Growth Chart is a powerful new tool that will help parents learn more about their child’s milestones from from 7 to 24 months.
An Early Start for Your Child with Autism: Using Everyday Activities to Help Kids Connect, Communicate, and Learn
Written by Sally J. Rogers, PhD, Geraldine Dawson, PhD, and Laurie A. Vismara, PhD.
This non-profit provides a dynamic community, both online and in person, that supports all families navigating the needs of their child in therapy.
Family Capacity-Building Module
This online module can be used to promote the use of many different types of early childhood practices, and includes strategies to engage parents in activities to build understanding and confidence in providing learning opportunities for their child.
Tips
Language Facilitation Strategies
Children learn language through everyday interactions with caregivers. Caregivers can support language during daily routines by: responding to all child communication attempts (pointing, vocalizing, saying words), making statements rather than asking questions, expanding child communication by adding words, setting up materials to increase child communication (giving a child a choice between two objects).
July 7, 2020
Our Commitment to Anti-Racism
We, the members of the EIRG, are committed to speaking out and taking action against the unjust, devastating hatred and violence that the Black community has suffered from for more than 400 years. We are committed to creating a research environment that is safe, supportive, and inclusive for our staff, research partners, and BIPOC families.
May 29, 2020
Research Round-Up
On today’s blog we summarize research about the efficacy of umbilical cord infusion for the treatment of children with ASD, using parent concerns to differentiate between developmental diagnoses, and the effect of educator professional developmental programs on children’s skills.
May 22, 2020
Research Round-Up
On this week’s blog we summarize research about a parent intervention targeting emotional and behavioral difficulties for children with ASD, the effects of starting an early literacy promotion program at birth compared to 6 months, and processing speed in bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder.
May 15, 2020
Research Round-Up
This week we summarize the Project AIM meta-analysis of intervention effects on language in children with autism.
The EIRG is committed to supporting families during their child’s first years of life. During this time, babies learn to roll, crawl, sit, stand, walk, talk, and sing. But not all children develop in the same way. During this period of incredible growth, it is important to maximize early learning opportunities based on your child’s own pace.
In collaboration with Northwestern University’s Center for Audiology, Speech, Language and Learning we offer the following clinical services.
Speech and Language Check-Ups
We provide free speech and language screenings. We also provide free autism screenings.
Individual Speech-Language Therapy
We provide one-on-one speech-language therapy sessions focused on teaching children to say words, combine words and say specific sounds. We also work with children and families who are using an alternative and augmentative (AAC) forms of communication.
Language Enhancing Playgroups
These parent/infant and parent/toddler classes focus on enhancing your child’s early language development within the context everyday routines. These groups meet once or twice weekly and are facilitated by a speech-language pathologist who provides direct instruction in language facilitation strategies and monitors your child’s development during this critical period of development.
Comprehensive Evaluations
We provide both speech and language evaluations as well as multidisciplinary evaluations for children with developmental differences to effectively diagnose developmental delays, autism spectrum disorders, and other communicative disorders.
