Texas Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention

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Texas Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention (Provides services to low-birth-weight infants.): Provides services to low-birth-weight infants and collects data from participating households that includes incidence of low-birth-weight infants and the prevalence of smoking in these households.

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Texas Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention, 4412 Spicewood Springs Road, Suite 600, Austin, Texas 78759, (512) 502-4900. The Texas Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention provides services to low-birth-weight infants and collects data from participating households that includes incidence of low-birth-weight infants and the prevalence of smoking in these households. In 1981 the 67th Legislature established a state wide system early childhood intervention services, coordinated by the Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention. It has become a national model for the provision of services for children with developmental delays. The purpose of the program is to identify children from birth to age three years who are, or appear to be, at risk of developmental delay and provide them intervention services. Intervention lessens the need for the Texas Education Agency to provide costly special education services once the children enter the public school system. The Council is composed of representative of various state health and human agencies and three parents of children with developmental delays. The Council became an independant state agency on September 1, 1993. (Fiscal Size-Up 1996-1997 Biennium Texas State Services, LBB)

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