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Gillispie, Carrie – Education Trust, 2021
Early intervention services are funded through a complex blend of federal, state, and local sources, and are part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). States have to make difficult decisions about how to fund critical IDEA services, including early intervention services, because Congress vastly underfunds IDEA. This often…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
Education Trust, 2021
Every child from birth to age 3 in the U.S. is entitled under IDEA (IDEA Part C) to support in reaching developmental milestones if they have a developmental delay -- that is, if they are meeting milestones more slowly than expected, or if they have a diagnosed condition that has a high probability of resulting in a delay. Strong support as soon…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Maxwell, Kelly; Sosinsky, Laura; Tout, Kathryn; Hegseth, Danielle – Administration for Children & Families, 2016
Early care and education providers are subject to monitoring by multiple agencies and organizations. In this brief provides an overview of monitoring and the major early care and education monitoring systems. It then offers possible goals for a coordinated monitoring system and describes some approaches to addressing those goals. Eleven dimensions…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation, Coordination
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Votava, Kristen; Chiasson, Kari – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2015
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of six state-wide policies and procedures used in the family assessment process within early intervention services. This qualitative study examined the administrative understanding of the family assessment federal regulations, state policies and procedures, and local implementation from the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Coordinators, Administrator Attitudes, State Policy
Ahearn, Eileen – Project Forum, 2011
A policy forum held May 11-13, 2011 to provide input from stakeholders to the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) focused on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) accountability reporting system known as the State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) process. Participants discussed their assessment of the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Stakeholders, Federal Legislation, Educational Indicators
Connecticut Birth to Three System, Hartford. – 1999
These guidelines were developed to help school and early intervention personnel and families understand the nature and benefits of assistive technology and how to use current best practices to provide assistive technology to children with disabilities. Information is provided in a simple question and answer format on the following topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Definitions, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education