Clinton County Community Foundation helps Infant Development Program make a ‘Smart’ move to help kids. Whether it is early intervention, parenting programs, preschool, or home health, the Infant Development Program in Lock Haven offers critical services to extraordinary infants, toddlers, and families in need. That’s why the Clinton County Community Foundation supports the program, this year offering a $6,500 grant to enable the nonprofit located on East Water Street in Lock Haven to purchase a Smart Board. Lisa Bangson, IDP executive director, said the Smart Board is in the autistic support room and “a speech therapist uses it to promote communication.  They are reading a book and incorporating the Smart Board to work on skills,” she explained about the accompanying photos. The IDP’s Early Intervention Program provides services based on the individual needs of the child and family.

These services are offered free of charge. Services may be provided either in a center-based or home-based program. The parenting program provides support and parenting skills to fathers and mothers, and expectant fathers and mothers. IDP’s Stepping Stones Preschool is a preschool for typically developing children, offering classes for 3 to 5-year-old preschoolers.

The Pennsylvania Elks Home Service Project is an in-home nursing service offered to those who have developmental disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, spinal bifida, speech, hearing, and visual disorders.

The IDP’s philosophy is that every child has the right to achieve his or her potential—physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally. The program’s website at www.idpkids.org further reads, “It is for us then as service providers to assist the child and family in maximizing those potentials. We will view the child as unique and integrate all realms of development in a comprehensive program.”

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or call 570.220.1038. Or visit its website at www.clintoncountyfoundation.org.