What We Do
About Play Provides Early Intervention Services in South Carolina throughout 27 Counties
About Play provides early intervention services in South Carolina. These services include Family Training and Service Coordination to children and families in the following counties: York, Chester, Lancaster, Fairfield, Richland, Lexington, Newberry, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg, Union, Cherokee, Greenwood, Laurens, Kershaw, Chesterfield, Sumter, Lee, Darlington, Florence, Marion, Dillon, Clarendon, Williamsburg, Dorchester, Berkeley, and Charleston.
We work with infants and children birth to six years of age who are eligible through BabyNet or DDSN.
Family Training is provided in the family's home or daycare with their About Play Early Interventionist (EI). The EI works with the family and caregivers to teach their child through play and everyday routines.
During the first years, children are learning through play to master skills and solve everyday problems. Some important play skills include cause & effect, imitation, how things fit together, and symbolic learning.
About Play home visits will focus on activities with your infant or child during everyday routines. These activities promote your child’s social-emotional, communication, motor skills, adaptive, and cognitive development. Our EIs assist families in accessing available community resources such as respite care, Summer support services, therapy services, autism services, nursing, audiology, and assistive technology.
Types of Early Intervention Services
We provide the following types of Early Intervention Services:
Special Instruction/Family Training
Example: teaching developmental skills such as sign language or teaching how to hold a child to support feedings.
Service Coordination (case management)
Example: developing a plan (IFSP) to pull services together for
the family.
Evaluations
Example: checking for behavior problems, or specific therapies.
Speech Services
Example: finding out why a child does not talk.
Infant Massage
Physical Therapy
Example: working to improve a child’s movement to explore
their environment independently.
Occupational Therapy
Example: teaching a child to use a spoon.
Support Groups
Example: helping find support through community resources such as Family Connections.
Hearing Services
Example: fitting a hearing device.
Vision Services
Example: prescribing glasses.
Nursing Services
Example: tube feeding or bandage changing.
Nutrition Services
Example: special diets or referral to a nutritionist.