Early intervention

As you may know, Big E was a premie born at 32 weeks. Because of that, she got evaluated by early intervention to see if she qualified to get any services. Based on the assessment she did qualify on the social aspect of the assessment. I thought that was a little silly though because at the time she was only 3 months old. So a special instructor started coming to our house every week and we found that it was a little more important at the time to work on getting her to start moving. We started with rolling over, then crawling, and eventually walking. She did all of those a little later than usual but that was expected due to her being 2 months early. She was evaluated again after one year of services and she qualified again but this time it was based on language development. We were so focused on getting her moving, that her language development wasn't quite where it should be, but the person that came each week said that was normal. So that next year we focused on getting her to talk more and she definitely did! Now our special instructor was only coming every 2 weeks because she said you wouldn't see too much progress week to week. Towards the end of that year she didn't even really need to come but we enjoyed having her come every other week to hangout with us for an hour! I still keep in contact with her and chat with her every now and then!!

So now fast forward to Little E. He was born at 39 weeks so he didn't get evaluated for early intervention. But at his 18 month check up earlier this week, the doctor said he is borderline for being concerned about his language development. So, I called up early intervention and requested to get him evaluated. It could end up that he doesn't qualify, but I'd rather just get him evaluated just to see. There's no cost to us which is amazing!! So if you have a child ages birth-5 and you think something may be up with some aspect of their development, see if there are early intervention services offered in your area and see how they can help you out.