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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Wondering if it's necessary and if it really helps? [/quote]

Research shows it does.  But here's the thing.  You will never know because your child is an individual and you can only make one choice - either you do it or you don't.  So if you do, you won't know if she would have progressed anyway and if you don't and she doesn't progress, you don't know that EI would have worked.  When it was me, I figured I could better live with trying it than with not doing something and later regretting it if my child's delays didn't improve.  To me, this is the real question:  what can you live with.  [/quote]

I am not against early intervention, but I don't think there is a lot of research showing that it works for otherwise NT infants who have delays like OP describes. If you can point me to specific research would be interested! EI is an entitlement system - so while OP's child may qualify based on their testing, that does not mean that the therapies are proven. [/quote]

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