South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 24 - EDUCATION › Article 24:14 - Early intervention program › Chapter 24:14:01 - Definitions › Section 24:14:01:01 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
Terms used in this article mean:
(1) "Birth to Three," the early intervention program for infants and toddlers from birth to age 3 within the South Dakota Department of Education;
(2) "Contractor," a public or private nonprofit agency, organization, institution, Indian tribal organization, or private individual, who has been awarded a department contract for the provision of service coordination and early intervention services pursuant to chapters 24:14:08 and 24:14:09;
(3) "Days," calendar days unless otherwise indicated;
(4) "Department," the Department of Education;
(5) "Department secretaries," the secretary of each of the following departments: Education, Health, Human Services, and Social Services;
(6) "Early Head Start," a community-based program established pursuant to the Head Start Act for low-income families with infants and toddlers and pregnant women to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, to enhance the development of very young children, and to promote healthy family functioning;
(7) "Early intervention program," the total effort in the state that is directed at meeting the needs of children eligible under this article and their families;
(8) "Early intervention services," the services listed in chapter 24:14:08;
(9) "Evaluation," the procedure used by qualified personnel to determine a child's initial and continuing eligibility pursuant to this article, consistent with the definition of infants and toddlers with disabilities in §
									24:14:07:02, including determining the status of the child in each of the developmental areas listed in §
									24:14:07:03;
(10) "Head Start Act,"42 U.S.C. §
										9801 et seq., as amended to November 19, 2014;
(11) "Head Start," a program established pursuant to the Head Start Act that promotes the school readiness of children ages birth to five from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development in the following domains: language and literacy, cognition and general knowledge, physical development and health, social and emotional development, and approaches to learning;
(12) "Homeless children," the term, homeless children and youths, as defined in section 725 (42 U.S.C. 11434a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 11431 et seq., as amended to January 1, 2008;
(13) "Individualized family service plan team," "IFSP team," the group of individuals described in §
									24:14:13:06;
(14) "Individualized family service plan," "IFSP," a written plan for providing early intervention services to a child and to the child's family pursuant to chapter 24:14:13;
(15) "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," "IDEA," the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act as codified at 20 U.S.C. §
										1400 et seq. December 3, 2004, and 34 C.F.R. Part 300 published in the Federal Register on August 14, 2006, December 1, 2008 and February 14, 2013 and as amended December 10, 2015 and 34 C.F.R. Part 303 published in the Federal Register on September 28, 2011 and amended on December 19, 2014;
(16) "Multidisciplinary," the involvement of two or more separate disciplines or professions as follows:
(a) Evaluation and assessments of the child and family pursuant to chapter 24:14:12, may include one individual who is qualified in more than one discipline or profession; and
(b) The IFSP team must include the involvement of the parent and two or more individuals from separate disciplines or professions, and one of these individuals must be the service coordinator pursuant to chapter 24:14:13;