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Early Intervention

What is Early Intervention?

There are lots of skills that develop in the first three years of a child’s life. Some infants and toddlers meet developmental milestones more slowly than expected. It is called a developmental delay. Early intervention can help infants and toddlers with delays catch up in their development.

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There are lots of skills that develop in the first three years of a child’s life. Some infants and toddlers meet developmental milestones more slowly than expected. It is called a developmental delay. Early intervention can help infants and toddlers with delays catch up in their development. Prayatna helps the Parents in their process of conquering the age difference in their Child’s development. When a child does not perform age-appropriately, and when this same fact hits the parents, it is not a cakewalk to accept it gracefully. The home environment and adults that surround the child are a big stimulator in the holistic development of the child. And therefore, family and parental counseling are done before the start of any therapies with the child. This enables the parents to be perfectly in sync with what has to be done with the child at Prayatna during the appointments and what can they do with the child outside Prayatna, like at home, school or any other facilities child goes to. The Parents and caregivers are accepted to play the role of partner in nurturing the child as he/she demand and shall be prepared for guided hard work and repetition with the child at home that could help in the intervention process smoothly and speedily. The child’s grandparents also are included in this process to help the child’s optimum performance if required.

Behavioural Therapy

What is Behavior therapy?

Behavior Therapy also referred to as “behavioral therapy”, “behavior modification” or “applied behavior analysis” – is a form of psychotherapy that involves reducing or eliminating behaviors and habits that are destructive, unhealthy, or undesirable and learning or increasing more appropriate behaviors. It is based on the premise that we are all shaped or “conditioned” by our environment. We learn to continue doing behaviors that are reinforced in some manner and to stop doing those that aren’t. In traditional behavior therapy, maladaptive or abnormal behaviors are believed to be the result of defective learning. For example, people learn to be anxious, compulsive, or inattentive. Behaviour Modification therapy not only helps children with disabilities but also helps to regulate Neuro-typical Children.

The goal of behavior therapy is to reduce or eliminate undesirable behaviors and teach or increase acceptable behaviors. This is accomplished through the use of behavioral techniques and strategies such as systematic desensitization, modeling, reinforcement, and aversive conditioning. Unlike psychoanalysis and other more psychodynamic approaches to therapy, behavior therapy relies on these conditioning techniques to help people make desired changes, rather than focusing on unconscious processes that may play a role in unhealthy or unwanted behaviors.

Behaviour Modification Therapy is for Children dealing with

  • Autism Spectrum
  • ADHD
  • Nocturnal Enuresis
  • Asperger’s Syndrome
  • Social Skills
  • Defiance
  • Behavioural issues

Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy as a whole focuses on the speech, language and communication achievement of an individual. Most children acquire speech and language by seemingly an automatic Process. Typically basic skills are developed by the time the child enters kindergarten, enabling the child begin the process of learning from teachers, peers and caregiver’s.
Any Disruptions in speech and language acquisition thus have both direct and indirect consequences for child and adolescent development, not only in communication but also in associated abilities such as reading and academic achievement.

Early Intervention can help minimize the symptoms and many times help the child to cope up at normal pace.

Speech Therapy is for an individual dealing with

  • Developmental delay
  • Genetic disorders-Cleft Palate, Down’s Syndrome, etc
  • Autism spectrum disorder
  • Feeding issues-oromotor deficits
  • Hearing loss and impairments
  • Infants with feeding and swallowing difficulties-Dysphagia
  • Misarticulations- problems in speaking a specific vowel or sound
  • Fluency problems-stuttering/stammering
  • Language delay
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Apraxia/dyspraxia
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Dysarthria
  • Voice disorders
  • Communication difficulties

Speech Language Pathologists can also help treat:

  • Receptive language problems: Trouble understanding (receiving) language.
  • Expressive language problems: Trouble speaking (expressing) language.
  • Pragmatic language problems: Trouble using language in socially appropriate ways.

Occupational Therapy

  • Fine Motors

    Grasp, Hand Skills, Handwriting

  • Gross Motors

    Balance, Coordination,
    Strength ,Endurance

  • Social Skills

    Communication, Self confidence,
    Team work

  • Life skills

    Age appropriateness, Self care,
    Community independence

  • Cognition

    Attention, Memory, Thinking, Planning

  • Play

    Creativity, Imagination, Rules, Learning

What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapy in child care services/Pediatrics:

Play and learning are the main occupations of the child. Occupational Therapists work with children having different impairments (visual, physical, hearing, cognitive) to help them achieve age-appropriate independence in day-to-day life.

Occupational Therapists work as a team with parents, educators, and other healthcare professionals (speech therapists, physiotherapists, counselor, Behavior Therapist, Remedial Educators, etc)

Occupational Therapy is For Children having difficulties with

  • Focus and attention
  • Learning (reading or writing)
  • Autism spectrum Disorder
  • Developmental delays
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Down’s syndrome and other genetic conditions
  • Handwriting and sizing-spacing
  • Sensory issues
  • Visual perception
  • Social skills
  • Behavioral issues
  • Intellectual disabilities
  • Social skills
  • Academics concerns
  • Daily living skills
  • Playing with peers

What are Social Skills?

Social skills are means of communicating and exchanging thoughts and ideas with others (either verbally or non-verbally) within the boundaries of social rules and relationships.

Eye contact, exchange of thoughts, accepting criticism, conveying/ expressing considering other’s feelings, body language, assertiveness are a few of the things required in social skills.

Social skills (here in the context of children aged 0-18) are done through play based therapy.
We have groups based on their functional skills and not age.
Games, activities, role-plays, and exercises help children to work on their individual needs.