Communication with Professionals

For the blog this week I was asked to communicate with another professional about an important topic.  I spoke to another fellow co-worker of mine about early childhood intervention and how sometimes children whose delays are not that substantial receive high amounts of service.  The position that I take on the issue is that the children who have substantial delays could be receiving more services if the children who have minimal delays were not taking up all of the resources and man power.  However, my co-worker saw it differently then me stating that who was I to judge if a child needed more services or not and that it was not up to me to decide this.  However, I believe thinking like this is a lot of what is the problem in Early Intervention Programs.  The overall reason for issues like this coming up is money. Currently in the program that I work with we need to bill for every child that we see and regardless of the need all children have high frequencies of services to have more to bill.  Honestly, I think that this is sad and unethical however it is happening and it needs to be discussed.