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DePaul Institute
Early Intervention
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DePaul offers parents a range of early intervention services for children ages birth to three years. Early recognition of hearing impairment in a child is vital. If a hearing loss is detected early, and appropriate intervention methods are applied, the developmental delay that the child would otherwise experience could be drastically reduced. Once an infant's hearing problem has been identified, auditory stimulation and beginning speech reading can be introduced to the child in DePaul's Parent Infant Program. Parents have a choice of the Dan Goetz Family-Infant Center-based or Home-based Family-Infant Services. The parents and young child are seen in one-hour sessions each week. The purpose of this program is to assist the parents in understanding the extent of the baby's hearing loss and to help the parents draw out the natural babbling and initial speech patterns. Parents are shown ways to utilize everyday situations and activities at home which will reinforce the language and speech development. At the same time, on-going support counseling helps the family deal with the grief and anxieties of having a hearing-impaired child.
DePaul also offers a Nursery Program and several full day academic programs, listed under "Academic Programs."
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