Resources

Early Start Programs

The following Early Start programs provide early intervention services to children ages 0-3 in San Francisco.

Blind Babies Foundation

1814 Franklin Street
11th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Telephone: 510/446-BABY (2229)
Fax: 510/446-2262
Email: bbinfo@blindbabies.org
Website: http://www.blindbabies.org/

Blind Babies Foundation provides home-based early intervention services to infants and preschool children who are blind, visually impaired or multihandicapped and visually impaired, and their families. Support services include home visits and accompany families to medical and educational assessments.

Easter Seals

For early intervention services:
95 Hawthorne Lane
San Francisco, CA 94105
Telephone: 415/744-8754
Website:http://bayarea.easter-seals.org/site/PageServer?pagename=CABY_EarlyIntervention

Easter Seals of the Bay Area provides an early intervention program providing speech, occupational and physical therapies, along with special education services for children 0-3 who are developmentally delayed.

Family Developmental Services

2730 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Telephone: 415/282-1090
Website: http://www.fsasf-fdc.org/

Family Developmental Services offers a multicultural, center-based developmental and educational program for children 0-3 with special needs. Occupational and physical therapy are offered on site through California Children Services (CCS).

Parent-Infant Program, California Pacific Medical Center

c/o Child Development Center
3700 California Street, 1st Floor
San Francisco, CA 94118
Telephone: 415/750-6200
Website: http://www.cpmc.org/advanced/pediatrics/services/CDC-services.html#Parent%20Infant%20Program

An early intevention program for children at risk for developmental delays supported by the Golden Gate Regional Center (GGRC), the Parent-Infant Program provides developmental and support services to children and their families.

Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California

1234 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Telephone: 415/921-7658
Fax: 415/921-2243
Email:info@hearingspeech.org
Website: http://www.hearingspeech.org/

Hearing and Speech Center is a private, non-profit hearing and speech facility which offers a full range of audiologic/speech/language evaluations and therapy and a Parent-Infant program.

San Franciso Unified School District Early Start Program

1098 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone: 415/355-7735
Fax: 415/355-7743

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) provides an early intervention program for children with a solely low incidence disability (visual, hearing or severe orthopedic impairment), and others with developmental delays as space allows. Children must meet the eligibility criteria for Early Start through Golden Gate Regional Center and SFUSD.