Members of this community are professionals, parents and administrators who work with young children birth to age three. Our overall purpose is to share information and resources for improving practices in providing services and supports in natural environments.
This community is a "place" to share and discuss improvement activities and tough issues related to states' Annual Performance Report's Indicator 2: services provided in the home and community settings; Indicator 1: early intervention services on the IFSP provided timely; and Indicator 7: evaluation, assessment and the intial IFSP meeting conducted within the 45 day timeline.
Please ask questions, start discussions or post articles including policies, training materials, IFSP examples or evidenced based practices that will assist states to maintain or improve performace in these important areas.
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Articles: Making Best Practice Our Practice: Reflections on Our Journey Into Natural Environments. L. Moore, D. Koger, S. Bloomberg, L. Legg, R.McConahy, S.Witt& M. Gatmaitan. In Infants and Young Children: January/March 2012- Vol.25 Issue 1-p.95-105
Early Intervnetion Teaming and the Primary Service Provider Appraoch: Who does what, When , Why and How? Http://journals.asha.org/perspectives/terms.dtl
APR National Indcator data from February 2011 submission (FFY 2009-10) Indicator 2 summary available on page 11 at http://www.nectac.org/~pdfs/partc/part-c_sppapr_11.pdf
NECTAC, South East Regional Resource Center (SERRC), and Matrix Parent Center - RPTAC 6