By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
Sunflower Diversified Services’ Early Education Center, along with community partners, is creating a free developmental fair that will offer screenings for infants and toddlers. The event will be held Tuesday, April 4 at the Great Bend Public Library from 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sunflower Early
Childhood Special Education teacher McKinley Phillips said there will be booths
set up by Healthy Families, Barton County Health Department, COPE, Family
Crisis Center and more community partners.
"As we have this event going on, we also have speakers from a bunch of our community partners who will be giving small presentations in a classroom off to the side," said Phillips. "Those are completely free to families. It's a way for them to get more information about the great things our partners are doing and what is offered in our community."
The free developmental screenings, for ages newborn to two years old, will be
provided by the Sunflower Early Education Center.
"We consider development screenings very important, starting at just a couple months of age," said Phillips. "We want to make sure your kids are meeting those milestones and are where they should be. These are completely free. We will check all six of our major areas of development, so motor skills, cognitive skills and social. We also check hearing and vision."
The average time for the developmental screening is 30 minutes.