Saturday, December 14, 2013

Early Intervention

Early Intervention is a state funded program designed to identify children with developmental delays between the ages of birth-3 years. The goal being putting interventions in place before preschool. Muriel had been assessed by them around 7 months and presented a >30% delay in gross motor skills. She received physical therapy for 3 months and at her reevaluatuon she had made great gains and did not qualify. That was last February.
The EI team consisting of a speech pathologist, physical therapist, developmental therapist, and her case manager visited the house on Thursday. They spent 2 hours evaluating her and determined she again has around a 30% delay in gross motor and a 45% (yikes) delay in expressive language. In the area of receptive language she was not presenting delay, nor did she show a cognitive delay! We plan on weekly speech and bimonthly PT as soon as the paperwork goes through.

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