Early Start Center for Learning and Development
Rooted in Compassion. Powered by Progress. United in Purpose.
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Our Services
We accept most major insurance plans. Please contact Early Start Intervention Services, Inc, for any private insurance or Medicaid questions.
Compassionate Care
Safety, dignity, and rapport are our highest priorities. Our goal is to increase joy and preserve trust by creating supportive interactions that promote calm, engagement, and meaningful participation. Guided by compassionate, evidence-based practices, we work to prevent escalation to severe problem behavior by reducing common triggers, recognizing and reinforcing early warning signs, and responding in ways that protect dignity while supporting regulation and learning.
Life Skills
We prioritize practical life skills that promote independence, confidence, and long-term quality of life. Instruction targets daily living skills such as self-care, routines, safety, problem-solving, and functional independence, helping each child build the skills needed for greater participation at home, school, and in the community.
Play-Based Therapy
Our play-based therapy model uses meaningful, engaging interactions to support development across multiple domains, including social-emotional functioning, cognition, language, and adaptive skills. Through carefully designed play experiences, children build foundational abilities in ways that are motivating, natural, and individualized to their developmental profile.
Social Skills
Social development is taught intentionally through structured and natural opportunities to engage with others. Goals may include building joint attention, understanding thoughts and feelings, participating with peers, developing conversation skills, and learning how to navigate social situations with increasing flexibility and confidence.
Communication
Communication is central to independence, connection, and quality of life. We assess and teach verbal language, functional communication, and alternative communication systems when needed, helping children express wants, needs, feelings, and ideas while building skills that support meaningful social interaction and increasingly complex conversations.
Parent Coaching
Family collaboration is essential to meaningful progress. Parent coaching is embedded throughout assessment, treatment planning, and intervention, helping caregivers understand goals, use supportive strategies at home, and promote consistency across daily environments. We value parent insight and partnership as a vital part of every child’s success.
Initiation and Eligibility
Parent/ Guardian contacts Early Start Intervention Services, Inc. (i.e. visit clinic, call, email). Insurance information is collected and the company is called to verify benefits and coverage.
Intake Process
​Informational session with introductions, tour, and initial intake process begins. Review of client policies and procedures, and intake paperwork completed. Required documentation will also be collected in this stage including recent IEP and eligibility determination, relevant therapy and medical records, psychiatric evaluations, etc.
Assessment
Following insurance authorization, an assessment is scheduled. Assessments consist of observations, interviews, formal assessment and whatever else if required based on initial intake information collected.
Goal Setting
Session with family to review results of assessment, discuss the treatment plan and commit to clinical recommendations. After family approval, the treatment plan will be submitted to insurance for therapy authorization.
Scheduling
Once the insurance company approves services, the schedule for sessions will be finalized with the family. Additional "first day" logistics will be discussed. A Registered Behavior Technician will be paired with the client. After that, parent/guardian will be introduced to their child's Dream Team and the first session will be on the way!