90-6 assure that there are procedures in place defining developmental delay and established conditions for children and their families eligible under this Part. A. Child Find is a screening, tracking, monitoring, and referral process of identifying individual children who are thought to be at risk of manifesting developmental difficulties. Child find activities, including screening, tracking, monitoring and referral, continue to be available to this group.
Tracking is implemented within the confines of confidentiality and parental informed consent.
B. Early Intervention is a program of educational and therapeutic services which facilitates the developmental patterns are atypical or are serious risk of becoming atypical through certain physical or mental conditions. The multidisciplinary team, which considers the multidisciplinary evaluation of the child and subsequent recommendations, family situation, parent recommendations, observational information and informal clinical opinion, determines if the child meets the criteria for developmental delay or established condition. If the multidisciplinary team cannot reach consensus regarding whether the child meets eligibility criteria, evaluation data and recommendations will be forwarded to the Transagency Review Team which is established by the Regional Infant Toddler Committee to advise and assist in eligibility determinations and includes a representative of the lead agency. The Transagency Review Team will then assist the lead agency to make the final eligibility determination. Functional definitions which describe a child's developmental level are to be used for delivering intervention services.