PHOTOS PROVIDED Students at the Infant Development Program in Lock Haven incorporate a Smart Board while reading a book to incorporate new skills.

PHOTOS PROVIDED
Students at the Infant Development Program in Lock Haven incorporate a Smart Board while reading a book to incorporate new skills.

LOCK HAVEN — 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.

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 expecting fathers and mothers.

IDP’s Stepping Stones Preschool is a preschool for typically developing children, offering classes for three to five-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, downs syndrome, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, spinal bifida and 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.”

To learn more about how to support the Foundation in its mission to address Clinton County’s most pressing needs and promising opportunities, visit www.clintoncountyfoundation.org or call 570-220-1038.