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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts. Yes, it's free at Montgomery County. I am hesitant (not saying no) just because I wasn't sure if it's necessary, if I'm overreacting or being impatient. Sort of a wait and see approach as one of the PPs suggested.

We are first time parents and didn't even know programs like this exist for babies with no medical condition. After our 9 months check up and assessment, her pediatrician suggested this program. Believe it or not, it took 3 weeks to set up this assessment appointment. This is in respond to the pp who said we should have started this a while ago.

We are going to try this as it is free and were told we can stop anytime. Anyone other success stories from EI?[/quote]

Glad you're going to give it a try. Especially if it is free and you pediatrician recommended it, it is absolutely worthwhile. Why would you not? There is literally no drawback.

My son needed speech therapy, and went from a pretty moderate delay with articulation problems to on-target now for entering kindergarten next fall. I'm so glad we did it. I could tell very early that he wasn't progressing with speech very well - he started out strong, and then stopped progressing at all. Whenever I would mention it to my husband, baby's grandparents, even pediatrician, they all thought I was overreacting. As he got older it finally became apparent enough that my husband agreed with requesting an assessment, which did show moderate delay at that point. Nobody could understand him but us, and even we couldn't understand much. I'm so glad we did it, because it also taught us how to help him. It's not just working with the baby when they come, it's teaching you to work with the baby all of the rest of the time in order to see actual improvement. If the parents aren't invested and don't try, then the interventions are far less likely to be helpful. Our experience has been great, and I'm so glad we did it. [/quote]

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