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What Is A Child Life Specialist?
Child Life Specialists are healthcare professionals that work closely with children and families in a hospital setting
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Early Intervention Assessment Preview Day
Join us on April 16 at Erikson Institute’s River North campus to preview assessments approved by the IDHS Bureau of Early Intervention.
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Outcomes: Measuring the Success of Early Intervention
In early intervention (EI), we have three types of outcomes to measure success.
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Assessments for Illinois Early Intervention
Providers can sign up for an on-site preview of newly approved assessment tools.
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Volume 36, Issue 4 (Winter 2024)
Families and early intervention providers can use common everyday, household objects for play to help achieve early intervention outcomes.
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Fun Sensory Activities
This topical guide on fun sensory activities will introduce you to important books, videos, and information resources available from the EI Clearinghouse.
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Winter 2024 Newsletter focuses on using household items
The newsletter highlights a variety of ways families and early intervention providers can use common everyday, household objects for play to help achieve early intervention outcomes.
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Sensory Processing and Integration
This topical guide will introduce you to important books, videos, and information resources available from the EI Clearinghouse and other sources.
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Resources for Families: Live Video Visits and Teletherapy
This tip sheet includes links to important resources for families on live video visits.
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Focus Group on Family Experience in the Early Intervention System
The Illinois EI System is conducting a series of virtual focus groups to understand the family experience…
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Principles of Early Intervention
The primary goal of Early Intervention (EI) is to build caregiver capacity…
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EIC Technology Loan Program
The Illinois Early Intervention Clearinghouse is pleased to announce we are loaning technology to help families in early intervention participate in live video visits, or telehealth.
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Live Video Visits, Phone Consultations, and In-Person Early Intervention (EI) Services: What’s Right for My Family?
You can receive EI services in three ways: live video visits, phone consultation, and in-person services…
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Coaching: An Essential Part of Early Intervention
Coaching is an important part of your family’s early intervention journey. Parents and providers work together to identify what is going well, what areas may be challenging…
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Everyday Early Intervention During Trying Times
The Early Intervention Clearinghouse has compiled a collection of resources to help families consider ways to help their children during everyday routines. Families can work on EI outcomes during play and daily routines. We hope these resources help you start to think about everyday moments in the kitchen, when doing the laundry, or playing on…
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Statewide Family Events
This page lists links to calendars with conferences, workshops, and other events related to early intervention in Illinois. To find other opportunities, visit these statewide calendars
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Technology for Live Video Visits
The focus of early intervention is to facilitate the active participation of families in the EI process by engaging caregivers in the planning and implementation of services. Live video visits (e.g., telehealth or teletherapy) may enable you and your child to receive early intervention (EI) services. Below, we provide some technology tips for live video…
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A Description of Live Video Visits
The focus of early intervention is to facilitate the active participation of families in the EI process by engaging caregivers in the planning and implementation of services.
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Introduction to Early Intervention (EI) Live Video Visits: Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions regarding participating in the early intervention program using live video visits
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Transition at Age 3: Leaving the Early Intervention Program
Illinois Early Intervention (EI) Program services end when a child turns age 3. To give you time to plan for this change in services, the law requires that your EI team begin planning for transition six months before your child’s third birthday. This allows you adequate time to find out if your child is eligible…
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Everyday Early Intervention: In the Kitchen
Help your child become involved in cooking, washing dishes, and cleanup tasks with items that are safe for infants and toddlers to handle.
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Volume 36, Issue 3 (Fall 2023)
Our latest newsletter focuses on everyday routines. Routines help young children know what they can expect next.
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Routines in Early Intervention
EI visits usually last only an hour, so most of the intervention is done by parents and other caregivers without the providers present.
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Routines Provide a Sense of Security
Think about how you begin your day. Are there certain things that happen for you to feel awake and ready to tackle your day? Coffee, a shower, quiet time? Our morning routine can set the tone for the rest of the day.
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Build Skills When Exploring Outdoors
Outside play is a wonderful opportunity to work on early intervention (EI) outcomes.
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Fall 2023 Newsletter Focuses on Everyday Routines
Our main story focuses on ways families can use everyday routines to work on early intervention outcomes
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Early Intervention Timelines and Your Rights
After you are referred to the Illinois Early Intervention Program, you have many rights.
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Having Difficult Conversations
EIC Resources Getting Started in Early Intervention Tip Sheets
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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Resources
EIC Resources Resource Guide Central Directory: Hard of Hearing/Deafness Books for Parents Books for Children Detailed borrowing information for these books can be found below.
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Family Matters – DaSy Training Zoom Series
Family Matters Parent Training & Information Center is offering a four-part series to help families understand and analyze data and meaningfully engage in discussions about state and local data.
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Summer newsletter focuses on Outdoor Fun
Summer 2023 EI Clearinghouse Newsletter is now available on our website in English and Spanish…
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Volume 36, Issue 2 (Summer 2023)
Outside play is a wonderful opportunity to work on early intervention (EI) outcomes.
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Outdoor Fun
This topical guide on everyday fun outdoors will introduce you to important books, videos, and information resources available from the EI Clearinghouse.
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Planning for Summer
Summer can also be a great time to creatively think about how to address your child’s needs.
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Helpful Early Intervention Resources
A resource collection about Early Intervention that provides information and links to a variety of tip sheets, online articles, and videos.
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Getting Started in Early Intervention: The Early Intervention Process
Anyone can refer a child to early intervention—parents, physicians, other health care providers, child care providers, social service agencies, early learning programs…
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How to Help Babies and Toddlers Enjoy Mealtimes
Responsive feeding is a child-led approach to helping infants and toddlers enjoy eating and learn new skills. This means we let babies and toddlers lead the way and respond promptly when they communicate that they are hungry or full.
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Eating Tips and Recipes
Whether you have a picky eater or just don’t have enough hours in the day, here are some ideas that can help you to make these times more enjoyable for the whole family.
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Volume 36, Issue 1 (Spring 2023)
Responsive feeding is a child-led approach to helping infants and toddlers enjoy eating and learn new skills.
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Responsive Feeding for Young Children
Using responsive feeding at mealtimes means that you support your child’s independent eating, pay attention to their communication, respond promptly, and let them lead the way.
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Spring Newsletter Focuses on Successful Mealtimes with Babies and Toddlers
The Spring 2023 edition of the Early Intervention Clearinghouse newsletter is available on our website
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Resources and opportunities for families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing
We are excited to share several upcoming opportunities and new resources…
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