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Eligibility Criteria for EIS Services
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Developmentally delayed; or |
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Biological risk; and/or |
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Environmental risk. |
Developmentally delayed means a delay in one of the 5 areas of development:
- Physical
- Cognitive
- Communication
- Social or emotional
- Adaptive
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Biological risk means prenatal, perinatal, neonatal, or early development events suggestive of biological insults to the developing nervous system which increases the probability of delayed development. These are children who have a diagnosed physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in a developmental delay. It includes, but is not limited to:
- Down Syndrome
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,
- AIDS
- gestational ages under 32 weeks
- Very low birth weight (1,500 grams or less)
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Environmental risk means physical, social or economic factors which may limit development. It includes, but is not limited to ONE of the following conditions:
- Parental age: less than 16 years
- Any existing physical, developmental, emotional, or psychiatric disability in any primary caregiver
- Child abuse and neglect of target child or siblings
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Or, if TWO of the following conditions are present:
- Economically disadvantaged family
- Single parent
- Incarceration of a primary caregiver
- Parental age 16-18 and less than high school education
- Birthweight 1,500-2,500 grams
- Presence of physical, development, emotional, or phychiatric disability in a sibling or any other family in the house.
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