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Family Focus Hub
Welcome to Summit DD's Family Focus Hub! This is your guide to Early Intervention strategies, tips and local events to help your family get the most out of your Early Intervention experience. Check out the resources below.
Top Topic: Communication Development
Learn simple, effective ways to support your child’s developing communication. Explore easy strategies you can use during everyday routines to help them grow and learn.
Communication: Imitation
Imitation is one of the first building blocks of communication. Find simple ways to incorporate learning in everyday play to help your baby grow and practice their communication skills.
Babbling
Learn how your baby’s early sounds and babbling lay the groundwork for future words, and discover how simple back-and-forth moments can help their communication blossom.
Serve-Return: Circles of Communication
Discover how simple serve-return moments can strengthen your child’s communication skills by building back-and-forth interaction and helping you recognize how they’re already communicating.
Simple Sign Language
Modeling a few simple signs with target words can give a child more to imitate. Discover resources to help you incorporate simple signs to support your child's communication development.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Sometimes additional help is needed to develop communication skills. Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) makes sense to support early learners by giving them more options for communication if the words are not coming along as expected.
Community Resources
Explore free book programs and toy-lending resources that spark imagination, encourage language development, and create meaningful moments together.
Baby Supplies
In need of baby supplies or furniture, like cribs? The United Way of Summit and Medina has a database of local organizations that may be able to help. Check out their 2-1-1 Resources page for more information.
Family Focus Archive
Missed the last issue? Curious about past articles, tips or resources? No worries! We have all the information at your fingertips. Visit our Family Focus archive to see what you may have missed.
