U.S. Department Of Education’s Office Of Special Education Program’s Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Part C Monitoring Of The Texas Health & Human Services Commission Early Childhood Intervention Program

On October 8, 2020, the U.S. Department Of Education’s Office Of Special Education Program released this monitoring report on  Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Part C of the Texas Health & Human Services Commission (HHSC) Early Childhood Intervention program. The report concludes that Texas has failed to ensure that children with developmental delays have early access to speech and occupational therapy and other services. HHSC has three months to draw up a plan to ensure that a program that pays for infants and toddlers to receive such early intervention therapies is reaching all eligible Texans, or face loss . . .