Although children develop at their own pace, most children will achieve certain milestones such as crawling, walking, or producing their first words at around the same age. After careful assessment and diagnosis, if a problem is found, Early Intervention (EI) Services will be available to help a child who may have trouble reaching certain milestones. There are three main goals in Early Intervention:

1. Prevention: Before an official speech disorder diagnosis is made, at risk-children are provided services to prevent any further communication problems.
2. Remediation: Children who have already been diagnosed with a communication disorder or delay will receive therapy to decrease the long term occurrence or adverse impact that the communication disorder could possibly have on children later in their life
3. Support: to provide effective and functional communication strategies or intervention to children  with disabilities or impairment that is irreversible to increase the children’s quality of life.