Early intervention

kcswifey

When were you contacted by the early intervention team?  Just curious!

Aidge

We actually had to call them. ?I never would have known had I not been part of this board. ?Our pedi said nothing and our NICU said DS probably wouldn't qualify. ?Thank goodness they were wrong and we now get OT, PT, and eventually ST weekly!

mhop

I'm not sure what you mean.  Have you already contacted them?  It only took about a week for us to arrange our EI but we had to initiate the contact.

kcswifey

Really?  Our PT in the NICU said that she was going to contact them and they would call us.  Did you just look up your state's info online then?

 

ijack

we spoke with the PT in the NICU and she set us up to talk to EI once we came home

SBMBride406

I got the number from my pedi and called myself. The NICU is supposed to forward preemie parents info to EI but that system didn't work in our case.

userdeleted

I was contacted by an EI representative and I hadn't heard anything about them from the NICU. She came by my apartment to evaluate DS and we didn't qualify for any services, but she did have us sign up for a "follow along" program so that they could monitor DS's progress in case he needed them later.

Zeidy01

they just came to my house today. They called us about a month ago, a nurse came and had to do some test to evaluate if they actually need it. They failed 2 parts of the test so they got the referral. Today a lady from the County came to fill out some papers (it took 1 1/2 hrs). She did say that for early intervention ?anyone can make a referral (parent, hospital, Doctors..etc).?

gymrat

They contacted us and Cecilia has been seeing someone every two weeks for a couple months now and Marshall gets reevaluated every couple months.

njkaren

I had to call them. They are coming this morning to evaluate.

nictel

Zeidy and I live in the same county, so she kindly gave me some information on how to start.  I called them today, and they are sending someone out to evaluate him.  I had to reach out myself, no one contacted us.

mcdev

They contacted us within a couple weeks of bringing her home.

AviatorJJ

uh they never called us we called them. my pedi noticed that my son was a little behind and recommended it. Rowen was 4 months old.