TEIS
TEIS is the Tennessee Early Intervention System and is the Point of Entry (POE) for children birth to age three with delays or diagnosed disabilities in Tennessee. For a child and family to be eligible for TEIS services the child must have a diagnosed disability and / or a developmental delay of 40% in developmental area or two areas with delays of 25%.
The Developmental areas or domains are:- Cognitive
- Language / Communication
- Social / Emotional
- Adaptive
- Fine Motor
- Gross Motor
TEIS is responsible for the oversight of the programing that the family needs / requests as well as for collecting the individual data on each child and family. Guidelines are established for program functioning and meetings are held during which service options are explained.