What If My Baby Doesn’t Qualify For Early Intervention?
“Will Early Intervention Evaluators be annoyed if the issues aren’t bad enough to qualify for services?”
ANSWER- No way!! Our goal & the whole program’s underlying purpose is to help support children & their development so they can all thrive, however that looks for their individual unit. So that absolutely includes during evaluations (& at any point at all, really) when there are any concerns, no matter how big or small they may be.
And, the really nice thing about evaluations in Early Intervention is that even if your little one DOESN’T qualify, we will still give you lots of tips & tricks that will help encourage certain aspects of their development - so that is definitely a win win!
Hope that helps!
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For developmental questions, tips and guidance related to milestones about tummy time, rolling & sitting, crawling and walking, check out KC’s developmental Masterclasses linked here.
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KC is a pediatric doctor of physical therapy, wife and mom of three! She has spent her career working with children and young adults of all ability levels, and currently specializes in birth to three years.
