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ECI determines eligibility for children under age 3 based on:
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Developmental Delay
Children who are delayed in one or more of these area of development:
  • Cognitive, such as limited interest in the environment, playing and learning
  • Motor, such as gross, fine and oral
  • Communication, such as limited understanding or responses in communicating with others
  • Social-emotional, such as attachment problems, limited parent/ family interactions or behavior concerns
  • Self-help skills, such as feeding
Atypical Development
Children who may perform within their appropriate age range on test instruments, but whose patterns of development are different from their peers.
  • Atypical sensory-motor development, such as muscle tone, reflex or postural reaction/ responses, oral-motor skills and sensory integration
  • Atypical language or cognition, such as state regulation, attention span, perseveration, information processing, learning & memory, preverbal or presymbolic patterns, symbolic or representational thought
  • Atypical emotional or social patterns which may involve, but are not limited to social responsiveness, affective development, attachment patterns, and self-targeted behaviors
Medically Diagnosed Condition
Children who have a medically diagnosed condition that has a high probability of resulting in developmental delay are automatically eligible for ECI services. To see a list of conditions, please click here.