The Florida Senate

“Developmental intervention” means individualized therapies and services needed to enhance both the infant’s or toddler’s growth and development and family functioning.

“Infant or toddler” means a child from birth until the child’s third birthday.

“In-hospital intervention services” means the provision of assessments; the provision of individualized services; monitoring and modifying the delivery of medical interventions; and enhancing the environment for the high-risk, developmentally disabled, or medically involved infant or toddler in order to achieve optimum growth and development.

“Parent support and training” means a range of services to families of high-risk, developmentally disabled, or medically involved infants or toddlers, including family counseling; financial planning; agency referral; development of parent-to-parent support groups; education concerning growth, development, and developmental intervention and objective measurable skills, including abuse avoidance skills; training of parents to advocate for their child; and bereavement counseling.