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Early childhood intervention is a statewide program that supports families with children from birth to 3 years. ECI provides a range of therapy services and supports to help families who have children who have developmental delays, a medical diagnosis, or at risk for delay. The ECI team includes the parents and the early intervention therapists. Together they develop goals to strengthen the baby's development and provides parents the strategies to work with their baby throughout the day during their natural routines with their advice.

Help Me Grow Rio Grand Valley provides a centralized access point that connects families to information and services that support their child's early development health, and educational needs. A family looking for help had to knock on many doors to find the support they needed. With Help Me Grow, there is a connected network. Often times when families need help, they don't know where to start or even what resources are available. Help me grow is that best first call.

Easterseal RGV provides home visiting programs throughout Starr, Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy Counties, that support families from pregnancy until the time their child enters kindergarten. Families are connected to a program that best fits their needs and are provided tools and resources for enhancing their child's development while creating an optimal learning environment, supporting their child's success in school and their life path.

Working with the Galavis Vanderpool family, it has been very exciting. We met the family when Clyde was only four months old, and he is currently 21 months old now, so We've seen a lot of progress. A lot of the progress did happen virtually, and I can think of a time when we were doing an activity, and we were promoting his walking. He was still crawling, but mom thought that he was already showing a lot of skills and 
to encourage him to walk.

She was very small she was one pound nine ounce when she was born sister was three pounds so Avi had to stay roughly three months um in the NICU. Everybody would tell me like once we walk into the NICU we hear a baby cry we know it's Avi. We know Avi's cry so we got to the point where she had like a reputation in the NICU so we we kind of knew that something was different about her but we weren't too sure so when we got discharged.

Calep attends easter seals child care center he's been there for a few months now easter seals would be the top pick for any child care center. We do focus a lot on their development on enhancing their learning progressing in their developmental milestones. Not only do we help the children but we assist the families so whether it be developmental needs whether it be parenting needs whether it be necessities that they are requiring we have it all available to us.

Early Childhood Intervention or ECI serves infants and toddlers in the community who may have a delay or a diagnosis and need help with their development Pathways is one of our specialized programs within ECI the pathways program in our ECI program is specifically designed for children that exhibit characteristics of autism.

The focus of the HIPPY program is to encourage parents to prepare their children for school. We provide them with books and a curriculum that will help their children once they reach school to know their letters and their numbers and their shapes and be prepared. It also gives parents the confidence to be engaged in their children's education. We work with families during home visits. We provide activities that the whole family can participate in. We also help with parenting support strategies and overall family well-being. We really want to encourage healthy and safe homes for children to learn.

Parents as Teachers program is to support the child's development and overall well-being of the whole family. I heard about the Parents as Teachers program and it was explained to me, I thought, I like this. This is something that we can do. I'm a stay-at-home parent and I'm going to embrace this as best as possible. When I got the workbook or the, I was overwhelmed because I just looked at the size of it. But when I started leafing through it and I started seeing how.

Josiah, at first, he wasn't talking very much. He could understand what we were saying, but he would not talk at all. His pediatrician was concerned and they suggested the Parents as Teachers program as kind of a support system. Because Josiah is mainly around the two of us all the time, I thought it would be helpful for him to interact with other or other adults, so we do home visits twice a month.

I came to learn about Easterseals due to my daughter being premature. She had to have special appointments and they suggested early intervention therapies. She was born at 31 weeks. At the time we did not know that she had any conditions or anything going on and they suggested Easterseals from the top and I was like, what better way than them coming to me? And then I don't have to take her anywhere, especially with the pandemic that was going on. We just started from there. Part of my role is to provide resources and information, not only to the children that we work with, but to the family as a whole to ensure that the services we're providing to the child meet their individual needs.

My son Ocean, he is almost two now and just such an amazing special little boy and he just loves people and singing and he's just an amazing child. He came here when he was about one, so about six months ago, and he's just a really big boy. He's very big for his age, and he was just like really, he was a little bit delayed with his pediatrician, so we started physical therapy, but he would just take a few steps and fall, so he was very, just like not, not very stable on his feet.