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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes but right now there's no way of knowing if OP's baby is NT or not. She could be, in which case these things would resolve. She might not be, in which case they won't, or will only very slowly, without interventions that may be necessary throughout childhood. The thing is, you don't have a control kid. There's no way to know when your child exhibits delays whether they will resolve on their own without interventions or whether the delays are caused by something more pervasive. Personally, I would err on the side of caution. If she catches up and is dismissed and never has any other issues, great. But you can't count on the fact that's what's going to be the case. Kids have special needs and learning disabilities and some of those require ongoing interventions. You don't want to be the parent who forgoes EI only to realize at 5-6 that you wasted tons of time not using them when they were needed.[/quote]

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