• Who is eligible
• Who benefits

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Who is eligible for services?

Any child in need of additional help is eligible for services.  Services may be funded both privately and through public agencies, such as the school district or early intervention, both of which are not income dependent. 

• Ages 0-22 years
  • Any family may opt to pay privately for services
• Age 0-3 years
  • The Department of Public Health will fund a child’s services if they are registered with early intervention and have a diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum (Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD or PDD-NOS), Asperger’s Syndrome, Rett’s Syndrome, or Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.  If your child carries a diagnosis on the Autism spectrum and is not connected with Early Intervention, please give us a call and we can assist you.  Children with delays are eligible for early intervention regardless of the parent’s income. 
• Age 3-22 years
  • As an adjunct to the child’s day school placement or in complete replacement of a school program, a child’s team may elect to add Intensive Intervention services.  Milestones contracts with numerous school districts to provide intensive intervention to their students at home or during the school day. 

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Who benefits from our services?

There is great variability in what is considered “normal” development. If you are concerned about your child’s development, please sign up for “Milestones’ Free Screenings” where experts in the field will provide a brief evaluation of your child and spend some time talking with you to determine if our experts are equally concerned, or just a simply variable on what is concerned normal. We have also provided a “warning signs” checklist which you can take right now. If your child has any of these symptoms, we recommend an evaluation with the Milestones’ Evaluation Center. Click here to transfer to our Center's webpage.

All children disabled or not, would benefit from intensive one-on-one “tutor” time with all adult attention directed at him/her. The question really is does my child need this service? From scientific literature, children with developmental delays benefited most from having an intensive intervention as early as possible.  Therapy does not need to be defined as sitting at a table working intensively with one adult. Therapy should be thought of as a broader term of “learning time”. This learning time can range from learning how to talk or interact to taking an educational trip to the grocery store.

If your child is not currently enrolled in treatment or making sufficient progress, this is a great reason for Milestones to provide services. If your child would benefit from services, the next question is how many services does your child need? 

Map out your child’s week. First add in sleeping, eating, and downtime. All of these are basic building blocks of good emotional development. If a child has therapy instead of needed rest, the child may become overloaded and exhibit more behavioral or developmental problems then s/he started with. 

Next add in any current therapies which you see as beneficial. Next determine how much time your child has to receive intensive intervention. It’s best to start with a lower number of therapy hours and build up as necessary. Generally we recommend starting with between 2-10 hours per week depending upon your child’s need and age. If you need help determining the best number of hours for your child, please contact our admissions department and a clinician can assist you.