Source: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/partc-subpartd/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 18:11:08+00:00

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§ 303.301 Public awareness program—information for parents.
§ 303.302 Comprehensive child find system.
§ 303.310 Post-referral timeline (45 days).
§§ 303.311-303.319 [Reserved] § 303.320 Screening procedures (optional).
§ 303.321 Evaluation of the child and assessment of the child and family.
§ 303.322 Determination that a child is not eligible.
§ 303.340 Individualized family service plan—general.
§ 303.341 [Reserved] § 303.342 Procedures for IFSP development, review, and evaluation.
§ 303.343 IFSP Team meeting and periodic review.
§ 303.344 Content of an IFSP.
§ 303.345 Interim IFSPs—provision of services before evaluations and assessments are completed.
§ 303.346 Responsibility and accountability.
(2) A comprehensive child find system as described in § 303.302.
(b) Referral policies and procedures as described in § 303.303.
(3) Development, review, and implementation of IFSPs as described in §§ 303.340 through 303.346.
(2) Adopt procedures for assisting the primary referral sources described in § 303.303(c) in disseminating the information described in paragraph (b) of this section to parents of infants and toddlers with disabilities.
(3) A central directory, as described in § 303.117.
(c) Information specific to toddlers with disabilities. Each public awareness program also must include a requirement that the lead agency provide for informing parents of toddlers with disabilities of the availability of services under section 619 of the Act not fewer than 90 days prior to the toddler’s third birthday.
(4) Meets the requirements in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section and §§ 303.303, 303.310, 303.320, and 303.321.
(K) Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) authorized under Title XXI of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397aa et seq. ).
(a) General. (1) The lead agency’s child find system described in § 303.302 must include the State’s procedures for use by primary referral sources for referring a child under the age of three to the part C program.
(ii) Meet the requirements in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section.
(2) Is identified as directly affected by illegal substance abuse or withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal drug exposure.
(11) Domestic violence shelters and agencies.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, any screening under § 303.320 (if the State has adopted a policy and elects, and the parent consents, to conduct a screening of a child); the initial evaluation and the initial assessments of the child and family under § 303.321; and the initial IFSP meeting under § 303.342 must be completed within 45 days from the date the lead agency or EIS provider receives the referral of the child.
(2) The parent has not provided consent for the screening (if applicable), the initial evaluation, or the initial assessment of the child, despite documented, repeated attempts by the lead agency or EIS provider to obtain parental consent.
(3) Develop and implement an interim IFSP, to the extent appropriate and consistent with § 303.345.
(d) The initial family assessment must be conducted within the 45-day timeline in paragraph (a) of this section if the parent concurs and even if other family members are unavailable.
§ 303.320 Screening procedures (optional).
(ii) Obtain parental consent as required in § 303.420(a)(1) before conducting the screening procedures.
(ii) Not suspected of having a disability, the lead agency or EIS provider must ensure that notice of that determination is provided to the parent under § 303.421, and that the notice describes the parent’s right to request an evaluation.
(3) If the parent of the child requests and consents to an evaluation at any time during the screening process, evaluation of the child must be conducted under § 303.321, even if the lead agency or EIS provider has determined under paragraph (a)(2)(ii) of this section that the child is not suspected of having a disability.
(2) Includes the administration of appropriate instruments by personnel trained to administer those instruments.
(2) Make early intervention services available under this part to the child unless a determination is made that the child meets the definition of infant or toddler with a disability under § 303.21.
(B) A family-directed assessment of the resources, priorities, and concerns of the family and the identification of the supports and services necessary to enhance the family’s capacity to meet the developmental needs of that infant or toddler. The assessments of the child and family are described in paragraph (c) of this section and these assessments may occur simultaneously with the evaluation, provided that the requirements of paragraph (b) of this section are met.
(iii) Initial assessment refers to the assessment of the child and the family assessment conducted prior to the child’s first IFSP meeting.
(3)(i) A child’s medical and other records may be used to establish eligibility (without conducting an evaluation of the child) under this part if those records indicate that the child’s level of functioning in one or more of the developmental areas identified in § 303.21(a)(1) constitutes a developmental delay or that the child otherwise meets the criteria for an infant or toddler with a disability under § 303.21. If the child’s part C eligibility is established under this paragraph, the lead agency or EIS provider must conduct assessments of the child and family in accordance with paragraph (c) of this section.
(ii) Qualified personnel must use informed clinical opinion when conducting an evaluation and assessment of the child. In addition, the lead agency must ensure that informed clinical opinion may be used as an independent basis to establish a child’s eligibility under this part even when other instruments do not establish eligibility; however, in no event may informed clinical opinion be used to negate the results of evaluation instruments used to establish eligibility under paragraph (b) of this section.
(4) All evaluations and assessments of the child and family must be conducted by qualified personnel, in a nondiscriminatory manner, and selected and administered so as not to be racially or culturally discriminatory.
(5) Unless clearly not feasible to do so, all evaluations and assessments of a child must be conducted in the native language of the child, in accordance with the definition of native language in § 303.25.
(6) Unless clearly not feasible to do so, family assessments must be conducted in the native language of the family members being assessed, in accordance with the definition of native language in § 303.25.
(5) Reviewing medical, educational, or other records.
(iii) The identification of the child’s needs in each of the developmental areas in § 303.21(a)(1).
(iii) Include the family’s description of its resources, priorities, and concerns related to enhancing the child’s development.
If, based on the evaluation conducted under § 303.321, the lead agency determines that a child is not eligible under this part, the lead agency must provide the parent with prior written notice required in § 303.421, and include in the notice information about the parent’s right to dispute the eligibility determination through dispute resolution mechanisms under § 303.430, such as requesting a due process hearing or mediation or filing a State complaint.
(b) Meets the requirements in §§ 303.342 through 303.346 of this subpart.
§ 303.342 Procedures for IFSP development, review, and evaluation.
(a) Meeting to develop initial IFSP—timelines. For a child referred to the part C program and determined to be eligible under this part as an infant or toddler with a disability, a meeting to develop the initial IFSP must be conducted within the 45-day time period described in § 303.310.
(ii) Whether modification or revision of the results, outcomes, or early intervention services identified in the IFSP is necessary.
(2) The review may be carried out by a meeting or by another means that is acceptable to the parents and other participants.
(c) Annual meeting to evaluate the IFSP. A meeting must be conducted on at least an annual basis to evaluate and revise, as appropriate, the IFSP for a child and the child’s family. The results of any current evaluations and other information available from the assessments of the child and family conducted under § 303.321 must be used in determining the early intervention services that are needed and will be provided.
(ii) In the native language of the family or other mode of communication used by the family, unless it is clearly not feasible to do so.
(2) Meeting arrangements must be made with, and written notice provided to, the family and other participants early enough before the meeting date to ensure that they will be able to attend.
(e) Parental consent. The contents of the IFSP must be fully explained to the parents and informed written consent, as described in § 303.7, must be obtained, as required in § 303.420(a)(3), prior to the provision of early intervention services described in the IFSP. Each early intervention service must be provided as soon as possible after the parent provides consent for that service, as required in § 303.344(f)(1).
(i) The parent or parents of the child.
(ii) Other family members, as requested by the parent, if feasible to do so.
(iii) An advocate or person outside of the family, if the parent requests that the person participate.
(iv) The service coordinator designated by the public agency to be responsible for implementing the IFSP.
(v) A person or persons directly involved in conducting the evaluations and assessments in § 303.321.
(vi) As appropriate, persons who will be providing early intervention services under this part to the child or family.
(i) Participating in a telephone conference call.
(ii) Having a knowledgeable authorized representative attend the meeting.
(iii) Making pertinent records available at the meeting.
(b) Periodic review. Each periodic review under § 303.342(b) must provide for the participation of persons in paragraphs (a)(1)(i) through (a)(1)(iv) of this section. If conditions warrant, provisions must be made for the participation of other representatives identified in paragraph (a) of this section.
(a) Information about the child’s status. The IFSP must include a statement of the infant or toddler with a disability’s present levels of physical development (including vision, hearing, and health status), cognitive development, communication development, social or emotional development, and adaptive development based on the information from that child’s evaluation and assessments conducted under § 303.321.
(b) Family information. With the concurrence of the family, the IFSP must include a statement of the family’s resources, priorities, and concerns related to enhancing the development of the child as identified through the assessment of the family under § 303.321(c)(2).
(2) Whether modifications or revisions of the expected results or outcomes, or early intervention services identified in the IFSP are necessary.
(ii)(A) A statement that each early intervention service is provided in the natural environment for that child or service to the maximum extent appropriate, consistent with §§ 303.13(a)(8), 303.26 and 303.126, or, subject to paragraph (d)(1)(ii)(B) of this section, a justification as to why an early intervention service will not be provided in the natural environment.
(iv) The payment arrangements, if any.
(iv) Duration means projecting when a given service will no longer be provided (such as when the child is expected to achieve the results or outcomes in his or her IFSP).
(3) As used in paragraph (d)(1)(iii) of this section, location means the actual place or places where a service will be provided.
(4) For children who are at least three years of age, the IFSP must include an educational component that promotes school readiness and incorporates pre-literacy, language, and numeracy skills.
(2) If those services are not currently being provided, include a description of the steps the service coordinator or family may take to assist the child and family in securing those other services.
(2) The anticipated duration of each service.
(g) Service coordinator. (1) The IFSP must include the name of the service coordinator from the profession most relevant to the child’s or family’s needs (or who is otherwise qualified to carry out all applicable responsibilities under this part), who will be responsible for implementing the early intervention services identified in a child’s IFSP, including transition services, and coordination with other agencies and persons.
(iv) Identification of transition services and other activities that the IFSP Team determines are necessary to support the transition of the child.
(a) Parental consent is obtained.
(2) The early intervention services that have been determined to be needed immediately by the child and the child’s family.
(c) Evaluations and assessments are completed within the 45-day timeline in § 303.310.
Each public agency or EIS provider who has a direct role in the provision of early intervention services is responsible for making a good faith effort to assist each eligible child in achieving the outcomes in the child’s IFSP. However, part C of the Act does not require that any public agency or EIS provider be held accountable if an eligible child does not achieve the growth projected in the child’s IFSP.

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