13 - Wednesday, July 6, 1988 - Capilano Chronicle

| Program offers help
_to developmentally

delayed youngsters

NORTH SHORE parents who have a developmentaily-
delayed infant in their family can find a supportive resource
in the North Shore Infam: Development Programme.

Located in the North Star
Schooi annex at 380 West Kings
Road, the program offers home
visits to infanis up to three vears
old who are delayed in their
development or at risk of delay,
because of a diugnosed handicap
or due to unknown causes.

One of the main tenets of the
Ministry of Social Services and
Housing-funded organization.
which has 31 such tocally-based
groups across the province, is that
Parents are the primary therapists
working with the children, and are
the people to whom children res-
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every aterncon oetween ¢ and 4 om.

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By PEGGY WHITTAKER
: Chronicle Reporier

To this end. trained profes-
sionals visit the family on a regular
basis and teach parents how to in-
corporate recommended activities
for the child into the family’s daiiy
routine,

Parents are also invited to
“parent education evenings’ and
language workshops, have the use
of a 1oy and took jending library
and are given the chance to net-

See Pisygroup
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PETER AND his mom play on the floor during a North Shore Infant
Development Programme Playgroup. The program offers the Playgroups
in a supportive environment and regular home visits to families who have

developmentally delayed youngsters.

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