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To be eligible for Family Centered Early Supports and Services children must meet one of three criteria:
ESTABLISHED CONDITION – a child with a diagnosed physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in a developmental delay, even when no delay exists at the time of referral.
DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY – a child who has one or more of the following atypical behaviors documented by qualified personnel and the family:
- extreme fearfulness or other modes of distress that do not respond to comforting by caregivers;
- self-injurious or extremely aggressive behaviors;
- extreme apathy;
- unusual and persistent patterns of inconsolable crying, chronic sleep disturbances, regressions in functioning, absence of pleasurable interest in adults and peers, inability to communicate emotional needs;
- persistent failure to initiate or respond to most social situations; or
- a child who has a 33% delay in one or more of the following areas:
- physical development, including vision and hearing;
- cognitive development;
- communication development;
- social or emotional development; or
- adaptive development.
AT RISK FOR SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY – a child and his or her parents experience 5 or more of the documented conditions or circumstances from the two lists below.
Child Factors:
- birth weight less than 1500 grams;
- respiratory distress syndrome;
- gestational age less than 27 weeks or more than 44 weeks;
- asphyxia;
- nutritional problems that interfere with growth and development; or
- intracranial hemorrhage grade III or IV.
Parent Factors
- Documented developmental disability
- psychiatric disorder;
- family history of lack of stable housing;
- parental education of less than 10th grade;
- social isolation;
- documented substance addiction;
- age of either parent less than 18 years;
- parent/child interactional disturbances; or
- founded child abuse/neglect.
Monthly Income Limits: None
Resource Limits: None
Other Eligibility Criteria: None
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