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I am hoping for some pointers in the right direction. My youngest is being referred for early years intervention. He has been for speech therapy and we are about to embark on the Hanen sign language course through the speech therapy department. They are also referring to audiology for testing and have mentioned early years intervention with referal to paeds. GP also keen for early years intervention.

Can anyone tell me what early years intervention is! I understand what it means but in principal who are these people and what do they do? I live in Kent and have limited knowledge in this area. Tried google and not getting much information.

Thank you for that....

Ummm, those are the days I remember, being shunted from pillar to post with every other person being another specialist in his/her field.

I have since posting this discovered that a core group of professionals is set up to investigate various learning difficulties and as options are ruled out those members are dropped! Anyway it does make sense to get everyone talking from early on I suppose.

We have no idea of specific issues but he is not thriving, cannot speak (or won't) his growth has stagnated and we are getting to the point now where us and the GP thinks other things may need to be looked at. Unfortunately we have to assume the drugs and infections his mother had during pregnancy may have caused more of a problem than was first anticipated.

These "parents" have a lot to answer for. Unfortunately you may be right on the drug abuse damage. Hugs

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Seconding Irene. Wishing you and your youngest luck and strength Piglets-House.