National Strategic Plan for Early Childhood Intervention
ECI Strategic Plan
Highlights
Early [Introduction to ECI including definition and needs for ECI services, age range of children included and types of eligibility for ECI services and relationship
to regular ECCD services for infants and young children.]
Early childhood intervention (ECI) services are intensive and serve children principally from birth to age three and up to five years of age. They are tailored to meet the needs of individual children with fragile birth status, developmental delays, disabilities, malnutrition, chronic health issues that affect their development, and atypical behaviours, such as autism spectrum, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders. ECI services complement general ECCD services as presented in the National ECCD Policy. ECI services are more intensive and individualised that ECCD services in order to improve the development of children with greater developmental needs.
