Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 581 - OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Division 15 - SPECIAL EDUCATION › Section 581-015-2815 - IFSP Content

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Contractors
			 or subcontractors must use IFSP forms and directions published by the Oregon
			 Department of Education.
(2) Oregon
			 Department of Education IFSP forms combine the content requirements for IEPs
			 under Part B of IDEA, IFSPs under Part C of IDEA, and IFSPs under ORS
			 343.521.
(3) Each individualized family service plan
			 must contain:
(a) A statement of the child's
			 present level of development, including how the child's disability affects the
			 child's participation in appropriate activities for the child's age. For a
			 child under age three, the statement must include present levels of physical
			 development including vision, hearing and health status, cognitive development,
			 communication development, social development and adaptive development. The
			 statement must be based on information from assessments using professionally
			 acceptable objective criteria.
(b)
			 A statement of major outcomes or annual goals and short-term objectives
			 expected to be achieved for the child and family related to:
(A) Meeting the child's needs that result
			 from the child's disability to enable the child to participate in appropriate
			 activities;
(B) Meeting each of the
			 child's other developmental needs that result from the child's
			 disability.
(c) For a
			 child under age three, a statement of the specific early intervention services,
			 based on scientifically based research to the extent practicable, to be
			 provided for the child and to the family to advance toward attaining the major
			 outcomes or annual goals (including pre-literacy, language, and numeracy
			 skills, as developmentally appropriate for the child).
(d) For a child age three and older, the IFSP
			 contains IEP content including, a statement of ECSE and related services and
			 supplementary aids and services, based on peer-reviewed research to the extent
			 practicable, to be provided to the child, or on behalf of the child, and a
			 statement of the program modifications or supports for personnel that will be
			 provided for the child:
(A) To advance
			 appropriately toward attaining the annual goals;
(B) To participate in appropriate activities
			 and to participate in extracurricular and other nonacademic activities;
			 and
(C) To be educated and
			 participate with other children with disabilities and children without
			 disabilities.
(e) For a
			 child under age three, with concurrence of the family, a statement of the
			 family's resources, priorities, concerns and goals related to enhancing the
			 development of the child, based on information obtained through an assessment
			 tool and also through an interview with those family members who elect to
			 participate in the assessment.
(f)
			 The projected dates for initiation of services and modifications and the
			 anticipated frequency, location, intensity, method and duration of the services
			 as defined in OAR 581-015-2700 and modifications described in subsection (3)(d)
			 of this rule and the payment arrangements, if any.
(g) The name of the service coordinator from
			 the profession, including service coordination, most immediately relevant to
			 the child's or family's needs (or who is otherwise qualified to carry out all
			 applicable EI/ECSE responsibilities) responsible for coordinating the
			 involvement of the family and agencies in implementing early intervention and
			 other services, including transition services. The contractor or subcontractor
			 may:
(A) Assign the same service coordinator
			 who was appointed at the time that the child was initially referred for
			 evaluation; or
(B) Appoint a new
			 service coordinator.
(h)
			 For a child under age three:
(A) To the
			 maximum extent appropriate, the natural environments in which early
			 intervention services will be provided; and
(B) A justification of the extent, if any, to
			 which services will not be provided in a natural environment.
(i) For a child age three and
			 older, an explanation of the extent, if any, to which the child will not
			 participate with children without disabilities in the regular class and
			 activities described in subsection (3)(d) of this rule.
(j) A statement of:
(A) How the progress toward major outcomes or
			 annual goals will be measured, including the criteria, procedures and timelines
			 used to determine:
(i) The degree to which
			 progress toward achieving the outcomes or goals is being made; and
(ii) Whether revisions of the outcomes or
			 goals or services are necessary.
(B) For a child age three and older, how the
			 child's parents will be regularly informed of:
(i) Their child's progress toward major
			 outcomes or annual goals; and
(ii)
			 The extent to which that progress is sufficient to enable the child to achieve
			 the outcomes or goals by the annual IFSP review
			 date.
(k) The
			 steps to be taken and services provided to support the transition of the child
			 from early intervention services to early childhood special education or other
			 appropriate services, in accordance with OAR 581-015-2805, 581-015-2750, and
			 581-015-2810.
(l) The steps to be
			 taken to support the transition of the child from early childhood special
			 education to public schooling or other education setting, in accordance with
			 OAR 581-015-2805, 581-015-2750, and 581-015-2810.
(m) A statement of other services, such as
			 medical services, that the child may need but are not early intervention or
			 early childhood special education services including the funding sources used
			 in paying for those services or the steps to be taken to secure those services
			 through public or private sources. This provision does not apply to routine
			 medical services (e.g., immunizations, and "well-baby" care) unless a child
			 needs those services and the services are not otherwise available or being
			 provided.