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With your help, PARC can continue providing these essential services right in your community.
By sponsoring the PARC Family Focus Homebound Services or one of PARC’s Discovery Learning Center Classrooms, your gift of $1,500 per year will greatly assist PARC in continuing to offer critical services to children with developmental delays or at risk of developmental delays or disabilities and their families.
Children seek services at PARC who have disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Autism, and Spina Bifida or who are still being diagnosed. The potential is great for hearing loss, speech delays, seizure disorders, and delayed developmental growth and learning. Through a team of trained Early Intervention Teachers, Therapists, Dieticians, and Nursing, children are given full service supports while attending PARC’s Discovery Learning Center.
The Benefits of Early Intervention
The earlier a child and their family receive Early Intervention services the greater the short-term and long-term benefits to them and to society. The most rapid time of human development is in the early years of age. Quality childhood intervention services decrease the need for social and financial supports for the child and their family throughout their lifetime. With early assistance from PARC, a child will grow into a more independent adult who possesses increased social skills, requires fewer medical and specialized services, and who will have increased employment opportunities.
The benefits reach all aspects of the community. A state-wide study showed that every $1 spent on early intervention saves $4 of public funds required for special education and supports.
PARC Family Focus Homebound Services
Early Intervention Teachers and Behavior Teachers serve children up to age 6 in the child’s own home or in a community setting an average total of children are receiving services from PARC’s Homebound Program. This is necessary for children who are medically fragile or for families who want PARC to not only provide early intervention services to the child but to also work with the whole family. The effective program helps the children and their families improve their quality of life in the simple everyday experiences that make up all our lives.
PARC Discovery Learning Center Early Intervention Classrooms
Discovery Learning Center Classroom
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Children's Developmental Age
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Children's Chronological Age
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Avg. # of Children in attendance per day
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Piglet
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1 - 2 |
> = 1 |
10 |
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| Frog |
1 - 2 |
> = 1 |
10 |
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| Flamingo |
1/2 - 3 |
> = 1 |
10 |
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| Koala |
1/2 - 3 |
> = 1 |
10 |
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| Turtle |
2 - 3 |
> = 2 |
10 |
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| Giraffe |
2 - 3 |
> = 2 |
10 |
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| Monkey |
3 - 6 |
> = 3 |
10 |
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Kindly contact Elliott Rakofsky at 727-341-6929 or at giving@parc-fl.org or visit www.parc-fl.org.
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