Mission of the Early Intervention Center

To be a resource of help and support for both children and their parents and the one of professional training for specialists working with children with disability.

The Main Goals of the Center

For children: to give children with disability and developmental delays an opportunity to overcome difficulties in their development, maximally develop their abilities in order to integrate into the society life either completely or partially.
For parents: to give them an opportunity to understand the essence of their children’s problems, to see each child’s resources, and become an active and equal participant in the rehabilitation process.
For society: to show it the disabled children’s capabilities, their ability to develop, to prove a necessity of creating the system of assistance starting from the earliest age.
For professionals: to learn the new technology of helping children with disability, developmental delays and support of such families.

The main direction of the Center

Dissemination of Information and Education on the Early Intervention:

• realization of informational and educational programmes for parents, specialists and the society about the modern opportunities of preventing children from disability and creating equal opportunities for them.
•  training of specialists to work in the Center.
•  popularization of methodological materials on helping the children with disability, developmental delays and on supporting their families.
• active use of mass media for the coverage of our activities.

Service:

•  family therapy, provision of professional help for parents and children.
• creation and support of parents’ self-assistance groups.
•  adaptation or creation of assessment methods (developmental scales, psychological tests, remedial educational inventories).
• use of the child’s ability profile as the starting point of the work

Research:

• putting of the Early Intervention methodology into practice.
• creation and development of the selection system for the children who need early intervention.
• creation and development of the assessment procedures for the children who need it.
• working out of the team’s organizational principles.

The Center exists to:
 

• work with two categories of children those aged 0 to 6 years old:children at risk and the ones with disability of the same age.
• combine programs in the Center with home visits fulfiled by a team of professionals.