Dear All:
The State Department of Health has proposed regulations preventing the same agency from providing the evaluation, service coordination, and services in the Early Intervention Program. Parents will no longer be able to have the same agency provide both the evaluation and services to their children except in rare circumstances deemed necessary by the commissioner.
Please ask your families to send a letter to the Governor and the Department of Health speaking out on this unnecessary measure. Click the link below to go to our website where a letter and addresses are available. Email or printed letters are available.
The letters need to be sent prior to Monday, October 22, 2012.
http://capwiz.com/iacny/home
Any questions, please contact me. Thank you!
Wini
Winifred S. Schiff
Associate Executive Director for Legislative Affairs
INTERAGENCY COUNCIL
of Developmental Disabilities Agencies, Inc.