Childcare is hard to find in Fort Worth for any family, and harder when your child needs real accommodation rather than tolerance. The most useful thing to know here is not a list of centers — it is that Texas will send support into whatever childcare setting your child is already in.
Statewide HHSC program for children with developmental delays, disabilities, or qualifying diagnoses. Crucially, services can be delivered at a childcare center rather than only at home. Free referral, no diagnosis required.
Visit siteThe ECI provider for Fort Worth and Tarrant County, also covering Denton, Johnson, Parker, Wise, Hood, Ellis, Cooke, Erath, Navarro, Palo Pinto, and Somervell counties.
Visit siteExplains ECSE (called PPCD until 2019): a free district program that is support rather than a place, deliverable across childcare, Head Start, pre-K, and private preschool settings.
Visit siteWalks through the ECI-to-preschool transition, which should begin shortly after a child turns two and be built into the IFSP. Covers private preschool, Head Start, pre-K, and ECSE options.
Visit siteAdvocacy for families facing barriers to ECI services, with plain-language guidance on eligibility, rights, state investigations, and due process hearings, including sample request letters.
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