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Here's my two cents as a parent of a child who benefited from EI.

EI only takes children who are significantly delayed. There are plenty of cases where the kid is delayed... but not delayed enough to warrant free services.
Private therapies cost at least $100 an hour. My child needed 4 types of therapies once a week, and actually would have needed speech twice a week. I'll leave you to calculate the expense had this been done privately.

You would be monumentally stupid to not take advantage of this. Early intervention has been shown to work. And if you think it's too much (which it's not, see above about children being denied services), EI has never hurt anyone!

Please post on the special needs forum - the parents there are specialists.[/quote]

I am a SN parent who has urged op to do these services and I agree. In fact, if a parent is told their child needs and qualifies for these services and doesn't pursue them, I consider that borderline negligence. There's no benefit to playing roulette with your kid's development. For my child, speech delays were the tip of the  iceberg and only when we got servives for that did we realize there was more going on. At 7 she has been diagnosed with developmental coordination delay and a language processing disorder. She struggles with fine motor stuff and detecting stuff like tone or decoding messages in speech. She is bright and typical in many ways but without interventions she would not be where she is today. I have seen the difference those have made for her and they will be necessary for most if not all of her school career to help her be successful. Had I just written it off as "late talking" who knows where she would be today. [/quote]

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