Infants and Toddlers Program

Yeah, I had no idea what it was either until I needed it. Infants and Toddlers is a program for early intervention for children ages 0-3. Any child showing delays of any sort can be recommended to the program by anyone parents, doctors, neighbors and its FREE. They will set up someone to come to your house for an evaluation and if delays are observed they will make up a plan (it has a fancy name IFSP maybe?) to get your child the resources they need. 

Walking into our appointment!

Hunter was referred to this program by his neurologist for possible speech delay. Prior to his hospitalization he would say "mama, dada & uh-oh" all the time but since hasn't said them much at all. The fear with LCHAD and them having metabolic crisis is it can cause developmental delays and mental retardation... Hunter's had two metabolic crisis.

Last Wednesday, Hunter had his evaluation.  We did it at the elementary school after we dropped Alexis off at pre school (first day, yay!) they came back and confirmed what I knew, his speech is delayed. The only thing that caught me off guard was they said he is at the same level as an 8 month old... um, what? That seems a little drastic to me but oh well.  This Thursday (Sept 4th) they are coming to the house to discuss his plan and what the schedule will be like. They did say they would be coming once a week to work with him and they normally re-evaluate every 6 months.  He can stay in the program as long as he needs or till the age of three when he will transition into pre-school. 

Here is the link to Cecil County's Infants & Toddlers program (here)