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When a baby is referred to Sound Start, the multi-disciplinary team of specialists provide distressed and overwhelmed parents important educational and emotional support. After thorough evaluations, children and their families receive comprehensive, coordinated services including: speech and language therapy; family education and support groups; fathers education and support groups; baby and toddler language and development classes; audiological services; physical and occupational therapies; sign language classes; consultations with a social worker, psychologist, feeding specialists and A/V therapists.
Individual services are provided in the family's home environment. Group language and development classes are held at the Lake Drive School in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. |
Who Sound Start Serves
- Infants and toddlers from birth to age 3
- More than fifty babies and their families each year
- Families from eleven counties in Northern and Central NJ
- One-half of the families face financial hardship
- One-third of the families are multilingual
- One-third of the children have multiple disabilities, compounding the challenges of learning
Proven, Permanent Results
At age three, Sound Start toddlers graduate ready to learn into the Lake Drive preschool program or may become mainstreamed in their home communities. Because a high percentage of students remain in the Lake Drive Programs, we can track their long term outcomes.
Sound Start graduates attend prestigious colleges and universities or pursue promising careers through professional and technical education programs.They become successful individuals with meaningful careers raging from dentistry and investment analysis to social work and teaching.
