Early Childhood Screening Shows Results
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Firefly Project in action.
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Vladivostok Children's Polyclinic #12 is implementing the Firefly
USAID project aimed at early identification of childhood development
problems. Staff members who received training in Vladivostok and
Albuquerque are enthusiastic about the screening's results and the
positive health implications for Primorskiy Krai. Through empirical
data collection and analysis, Russian health professionals can now
see which development areas need improvement. Social workers, a
neurologist, a psychiatrist, pediatricians, a speech therapist,
a special education practitioner, and an exercise therapist are
all using these screening techniques, passing on the results to
parents and educators. So far, over 500 kids have been tested. With
a new USAID grant, in 2008 the Firefly Children's Network is starting
an early intervention training at two or three more clinics in Vladivostok.
CG Tom Armbruster and USAID representative Irina Lindberg visited
the polyclinic to see the program in action and were impressed with
the staff's commitment to the program and the potential for broadening
the program throughout the Far East as they spread their knowledge
to their colleagues.
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