DEIC

Medical/ Therapy Services available  in DEICs:

• Medical services – (Doctor: Pediatrician/ Medical officer)
  • for diagnostic or evaluation purposes. Medical treatment of children suffering from diseases and deficiencies.
  • health-related services necessary to enable a child to benefit from other early intervention services.
• Dental services – (Dentist)
  • for problems of teeth, gums and oral hygiene in children from birth to 6 years esp. “Early Childhood Caries”
• Occupational therapy & Physical therapy – Physiotherapist
• services that relate to self-help skills, adaptive behavior and play, sensory, motor, and postural development i.e. services to prevent or lessen movement’s difficulties and related functional problems. Sensory Integration, oro-motor and feeding difficulties.
• Psychological services – Rehabilitation Psychologist/Clinical Psychologist
  • administering and interpreting psychological tests and evaluation of a child’s behavior related to development, learning and mental health as well as planning services including counseling, consultation, parent training, behavior modification and knowledge of appropriate education programs.
  • Cognition services – identifying cognitive delays and providing intervention to enhance cognitive development, adaptive and learning behaviors.
  • Social support services – preparing an assessment of the social and emotional strengths and needs of a child and family, and providing individual or group services such as counseling. Socio economic evaluation of the family and linkages with the need based social services.
• Audiologist cum speech and language pathologist
• Audiology – identifying and providing services for children with hearing loss among children from birth to 6 years for both congenital deafness and also acquired deafness.
• Speech-language pathology – services for children with delay in communication skills or with motor skills such as weakness of muscles around the mouth or swallowing.
• Vision services – Optometrist
• Identification of children with visual disorders or delays and providing services and training to those children.
• Retinopathy of Prematurity (RoP) – for premature or preterm children.
• CVI – Specialized Dark rooms and Therapy services for cerebral visual stimulation
• Lab services – Lab technician
• for routine blood investigations among children to begin with but slowly would develop services for confirming congenital hypothyroidism, Thalassemia and Sickle cell anemia or other inborn error of metabolism depending on the prevalence of such diseases.
• Nutrition services – Nutritionist/ Dietician or Nursing staff
• services that help address the nutritional needs of children that include identifying feeding skills, feeding problems, food habits, and food preferences.
• Psycho-social services – Special Educator
• includes designing learning environments and activities that promote the child’s development, providing families with information, skills, and support to enhance the child’s development.
• Transportation and related costs – DEIC Manager
• Entire Service Coordination & providing or reimbursing the cost of travel necessary to enable a child and family to receive any tertiary level services.
• Referral services following referral guidelines – children who are diagnosed for any of the selected health conditions would receive follow-up referral support and treatment including surgical interventions at tertiary level.
• Documentation and maintenance of case records – Data entry operator
• data storage for service delivery, follow up and research.