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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New article by Dathan D. Rush and M'Lisa Shelden titled "Common Misperceptions about Coaching in Early Intervention" (2008) CASEinPoint Volume 4, Number 1 is available at: http://www.fippcase.org/caseinpoint/caseinpoint_vol4_no1.pdf
OSEP TA Community of Practice- Part C Settings Services in Natural Environments Documents
A national workgroup has reached consensus on principles and practices validated through several research, model demonstration and outreach projects designed to enhance services in natural environments. The documents are final drafts and were shared at the December 2007 OSEP National Early Childhood Conference during a session entitled Key Principles and Practices for Providing Early Intervention Services in Natural Environments: Reaching Consensus
Document 1- Mission and Key Principles for Providing Early Intervention Services in Natural Environments
Document 2- Seven Key Principles: Looks Like/ Doesn’t Look Like
Document 3- Agreed upon Practices for Providing Early Intervention Services in Natural Environments
These documents can be used to provide training but please use the citation on each introdouctory page.Please let us know of how you are using these documents or please share any other resources you have developed that support the principles and practices. Please send them to Lynda_Pletcher@unc.edu
Remember you can use the discussion feature on this site to post comments and questions about the documents or to post your resources.
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Other importent resources:NECTAC, South East Regional Resource Center (SERRC), and Matrix Parent Center - RPTAC 6