Children who have 25% delay or above in one or more of the following areas of development

• • Cognitive: difficulty with playing, learning and thinking
  • Motor: gross, fine and oral
  • Communication: limited understanding or responses in communicating with others
  • Social-emotional: attachment problems, limited parent/family interactions or behavior concerns
  • Self-help skills: feeding

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: muscle tone, reflex or postural reaction responses, oral-motor skills and sensory integration
  • Atypical language or cognition: self-regulation, attention span, repetitive speech behaviors, information processing
  • Atypical emotional or social patterns: social responsiveness, affective development, attachment patterns, and self-targeted behaviors

Children who have a medically diagnosed condition with a high probability of developmental delay are automatically eligible for ECI services.

• • To review the list of medical diagnoses visit https://diagsearch.hhsc.state.tx.us/

Children with auditory and/or vision concerns should be referred for eligibility determination.