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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development
Mission: Easter seals rhode island provides free early intervention services to children from birth through age 3 who are born with a disability, development delay, or other special needs. Early intervention services consist of vital physical therapy, occupational therapy, as well as speech and language therapies to help minimize problems that affect a child's communication, behavioral, and motor skills. Easter seals values commitment, integrity, respect, shared purpose, excellence, customer focus and independence.
Programs: Easter seals rhode island provides exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities. Children and adults with disabilities and special needs find highest-quality services designed to meet their individual needs when they come to easter seals. Teams of therapists, teachers and other health professionals help each person overcome obstacles to independence and reach his or her personal goals. Easter seals also includes families as active members of any therapy program, and offers the support families need. Early interventionearly intervention offers evaluation, education and therapy services from birth to age 3. Comprehensive evaluation of all areas of development detect early problems in learning, language, motor and social skills, as well as signs of disabilities. Pediatric outpatient programthe family-centered pediatric outpatient program provides outpatient occupational, physical and speech therapy services for children and teenagers, through age 21. Individualized service is focused on developing a child ability to perform everyday living activities by enhancing or restoring function.