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Parents and therapists urge continued funding for Baby Watch early intervention
Summary
Parents and therapists told the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee that Baby Watch early intervention is essential for children with developmental delays and urged the panel to sustain ongoing funding and prioritize a combined sustaining request in the chair's packet.
Multiple parents and early-intervention professionals told the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee that Baby Watch Part C services are essential to children's development and family stability, and asked the panel to protect the governor's sustaining request.
Jessica Palmer, who said her son Eli was born at 23 weeks and required a year in the NICU, told members…
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