You notice your child isn't meeting typical childhood development milestones. Or maybe you sense that something isn't quite right with your child. There is help. And children benefit when families access that help as soon as possible.
Families can reach out to their local pediatrician or the state's Early Support for Infants and Toddlers, an early intervention program that provides services to children birth to age 3 who have disabilities and/or developmental delays.
Watch this Learning for Life, we talk with Dr. Bette Hyde, director of the state Department of Early Learning, which now oversees the Early Support for Infants and Toddlers program, about the supports available to children with special needs and how to access the program as well as how this growing group of children fits into the state's new 10-year early learning plan. This segment is the first in a month-long series
Learning for Life – and Thrive’s daily blog
Birth to Thrive Online – is doing on children with special needs.
Learning for Life airs every Wednesday on KING 5 Morning News on KONG 6/16 TV between 8:15 and 8:30 a.m.
Please send any story ideas about people, programs and work being done to support children from birth to age 5 to molly@thrivebyfivewa.org.
Learn more and watch past Learning for Life series and specials here.