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My daughter did everything on time: she walked, rolled over, sat up and etc.. Because of her delay in speech, I searched in Google "Early Intervention Services near my area". Early intervention program basically means: It provides support and services to families with children birth to age five, who have developmental delays and disabilities. Unfortunately, the person whom they send me was great at first with my daughter with her speech, but she created a habit of calling in sick and not coming for her sessions. My mistake was not being in top of her absences and I thought that by providing my daughter with this service (basically were doing us a favor), but in the contrary these are funded by the state and we are entitled to have them. I always asked her how my daughter was developing overall, but us parents trust specialists and think that if we hear the words "don't worry about your daughter, she will be talking in no time"... we leave things as they are because we trust on their answers. Some other answers that I got because of her speech delay was: You come from a Hispanic background and she will eventually talk. I was aware of what autism meant, but did not know it would happen to me. My daughter had her regular pediatrician check-up and they never saw the signs.
Angelina was developing some words like "mom", "dad" and little some small words. We thought it would be good to travel to Bolivia and visit her great grandparents there when Angelina was 3 years old, she was a little fuzzy like most kids but okay in the airplane. We went sightseeing with her and of course hired a babysitter to be with us while we were going to everyplace around Bolivia. There was no sign in my eyes or other peoples eyes that she might have autism or anything else, my daughter enjoyed her trip to another country and we all had a great time there!
Then when we came back to Pennsylvania....things changed dramatically with my daughter all of a sudden.
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