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    A framework for developing and sustaining a Part C finance system

    1/1/07 - Greer, M., Taylor, A., Mackey Andrews, S.D., The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center

    This paper summarizes the fiscal challenges that this legislation presents and proposes a framework for analyzing, adjusting, and maintaining a flexible and self-regulating finance system to support Part C early intervention services for infants and toddlers and their families. The framework design features four phases of work to help agencies understand the issues and make informed decisions for on-going development and support of a Part C finance system.

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    Developmental Delay

    1/1/09 - National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities,

    Think of all the skills that children have to learn when they come into the world: smiling, turning over, responding to people, communicating, eating solid food, crawling, standing, and on and on. We expect these skills to emerge naturally over time and know more or less when they should. At 3 months, Susana will probably be doing this, at 4 months, she’ll be doing that. By a year, well, she’ll be tottering around, getting into everything. This time-table for skills to emerge is commonly...

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    Dropout prevention for students with disabilities: A critical issue for state education agencies

    1/1/07 - National High School Center,

    This issue brief provides guidance to states as they respond to requirements presented in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004) in the area of dropout prevention for students with disabilities. It also highlights the role of State Performance Plans as starting points for states to develop data collection and monitoring procedures, and supplies states with considerations and recommendations for providing a consistent method of tracking dropout data.

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    Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support

    1/1/09 - National High School Center,

    The development of state policy to promote academic achievement for ELLs is critical to improving educational outcomes and consistent with the goals of increasing high school graduation rates and meeting Adequate Yearly Progress under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Recent research indicates that states have multiple opportunities to take the initiative in supporting school systems and schools in their efforts to keep ELLs on track to meet postsecondary success.

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    Federal guidance on coordinated early intervening services

    1/1/08 - U.S. Department of Education,

    On July 28, 2008 the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) released guidance on the appropriate use of IDEA-Coordinated Early Intervening Services funding. This guidance is intended to provide states with information regarding the use of funds provided under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by local education agencies to develop and implement coordinated early intervening services (CEIS) for students who are not currently identified as needing special education.

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    Learning opportunities for your child through alternate assessments.

    1/1/07 - U.S. Department of Education,

    The purpose of this booklet is to introduce you to the “big ideas” contained in school improvement efforts under NCLB and IDEA, and to provide you with the information you need to help ensure your child can benefit from these efforts.

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    NCLB and IDEA: What parents of students with disabilities need to know and do.

    1/1/06 - Cortiella, C.

    NCLB provisions apply to all students, including those whose disabilities require special education. So it’s important that parents understand the requirements of NCLB. IDEA, in its latest update by Congress, has been more closely aligned with NCLB, making it equally important that parents become familiar with the ways the two laws have been positioned to work together to improve academic achievement of students with disabilities.

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    NCLB e IDEA: Lo que los padres de estudiantes con discapacidades necesitan saber y hacer.(Spanish version of NCLB and IDEA: What Parents of Students with Disabilities Need to Know and Do)

    1/1/06 - Cortiella, C.

    NCLB provisions apply to all students, including those whose disabilities require special education. So it’s important that parents understand the requirements of NCLB. IDEA, in its latest update by Congress, has been more closely aligned with NCLB, making it equally important that parents become familiar with the ways the two laws have been positioned to work together to improve academic achievement of students with disabilities.

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    Other Health Impairments

    1/1/09 - National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities,

    “Other Health Impairment” is one of the 14 categories of disability listed in our nation’s special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Under IDEA, a child who has an “other health impairment” is very likely to be eligible for special services to help the child address his or her educational, developmental, and functional needs resulting from the disability.

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    Part C Updates (10th ed).

    1/1/09 - Goode, S., Lazara, A., Danaher, J.

    Part C Updates is a compilation of information on various aspects of the Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities (Part C) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

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    Promoting Social-emotional Wellbeing in Early Intervention Services: A Fifty-state View

    1/1/09 - Janice L. Cooper , Jessica Vick

    The aim of the study reported in this brief was to determine how states leveraged different policy choices to support integration of social-emotional developmental strategies into early intervention services. Forty-eight states’ Part C coordinators participated in the study. They reported on their states’ efforts to support screening, referral and evaluation; strategies that are part of the array of early intervention service continuum covered by the Part C program; services and supports...

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    Section 619 Profile (15th ed.).

    1/1/07 - Lazara, A., Danaher, J., Kraus, R.

    This 15th edition of the Profile describes services provided under the Preschool Grants Program (Section 619 of Part B) of IDEA.

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    SLD eligibility: A user's guide to the new regulations

    1/1/06 - Zinkel, P.

    This 2006 brief describes the 2004 amendments to the IDEA, that provide significant changes in the determination of Specific Learning Disability eligibility.

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    State and jurisdictional eligibility definitions for infants and toddlers with disabilities under IDEA

    7/1/06 - Jo Shackelford

    This paper discusses how the 50 states and 6 jurisdictions that participate in the Part C program define developmental delay and, as applicable, at risk in their definition of eligibility for services.

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    To fee or not to fee: That is the question!

    1/1/07 - Mackey Andrews, S., Taylor, A.

    The focus of this paper is the broad category of family cost participation (FCP), providing a general overview of what is permissible under current federal regulations under a “state system of payments” and how FCP can be structured within this requirement, including a discussion of public policy implications.

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    Understanding the Current Context of LRE: States’ Progress in Improving Student Outcomes

    1/1/09 - Amanda L. Sullivan, Elizabeth B. Kozleski

    This presentation is designed to address issues in LRE in different states including progress and slippage.

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