Health care providers, politicians and parents are raising concerns that programs for children with developmental ...
Automatic eligibility policies can help serve more infants and families with EI, but implementation is critical.
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Federal law requires that children with suspected disabilities be offered therapies that could help them thrive later in life. But children from birth to age 1 are the least likely to receive that ...
Naiommy Baret’s 3-year-old son receives early intervention services for epilepsy and a speech delay. Credit: Vanessa Leroy for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.
New York is falling behind when it comes to helping its youngest residents with developmental delays — and a new report says the time to act is now. The state ranks 48th in the country for delivering ...
When Kimberly Halevy’s son was 3, she started hearing from his preschool that he needed extra support. But more than a year ...
New York has administered its Early Intervention Program since 1993. Some of the problems that exist today can be traced back ...
In California, babies and toddlers with developmental delays are entitled to receive a host of early intervention services to enhance their ability to sit, walk, talk or feed themselves. The services ...
CHICAGO — Early childhood intervention advocates are calling on the state to increase funding by $60 million to better support children with developmental delays and disabilities who are on long ...
New York has been struggling to provide Early Intervention services to babies with developmental delays for years now. That’s because of a severe shortage of therapists. But things have gotten a lot ...
Cathy Chin, Executive Director of The Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities, joins Steve Adubato to discuss the critical need for more early intervention services for children in ...
A more than $1 billion deficit in the Colorado budget has state lawmakers scrambling to figure out where to make cuts. Last week, cuts to Early Intervention Services were among those being considered.