Developing Family-Service Provider Collaboration
This session emphasizes the importance of building relationships with families in developing family-service provider collaboration.
This session emphasizes the importance of building relationships with families in developing family-service provider collaboration.
Using the video Getting Services, this session reviews the processes of early identification; referral to early intervention to determine eligibility for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C services; and support to families who are accessing services.
This session covers information that is important to families and service providers when a disability is first identified.
Listening to families is a skill that is essential for providing responsive services to infants and toddlers with disabilities. This session lays the foundation for building relationships with families.
Creating Bright Futures is intended as the first step toward helping participants think about creating a vision of what inclusion will look like in their programs and communities.
Participants discuss specific strategies and practices for initially planning to include a child with a disability in early care and education in collaboration with early intervention.
This session is designed to help participants consider issues that arise when including infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families in early care and education programs.
Participants explore strategies that service providers can use to support families and ensure smooth transitions between infant/toddler services and preschool services.
The Christopher's Story video is used in this session to consider what "inclusive services" means and can look like for a young child with a disability and his family.
In this session, explore strategies for addressing staff concerns as they work with families and other service providers in identifying disabilities in young children and in sharing that information with families.