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Individualized Family Service Plan-IFSP
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IFSP
• The Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) is a process of looking at the strengths of the Part C eligible child and family, and developing a written plan to identify individualized supports and services that will enhance the child's development.
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IFSP
•The IFSP is a dynamic planning tool – • reviewed every six months or more frequently if you choose• Changes may be made to the IFSP as the child grows and develops.
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IFSP
• The IFSP differs from the IEP in several ways: • It revolves around the family, as it is the family
that is the constant in a child's life. • It includes outcomes targeted for the family, as
opposed to focusing only on the eligible child.
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IFSP• It includes the notion of natural
environments
• home or community settings such as parks, child care, and gym classes.
• opportunities for learning interventions in everyday routines and activities, rather than only in formal, contrived environments.
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IFSP
• It includes activities undertaken with multiple agencies beyond the scope of Part C. These are included to integrate all services into one plan. • It names a service coordinator to help the
family during the development, implementation, and evaluation of the IFSP.
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IFSP
Steps that Lead to Effective IFSPs •Identify Family Concerns, Priorities, and Resources.• EI is a system of services and supports
available to families to enhance their capacity to care for their children• This is when we introduce the notion of
partnership with the family
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IFSP
• Identify the Family's Activity Settings. • document valued, enjoyable routines (bath
time, eating, play activities, etc.) • analyze them to see if they offer the sustained
engagement that leads to learning opportunities. • identify the community activity settings (e.g.,
child care, gymboree, swimming) that provide opportunities for learning.
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IFSP
Conduct a Functional Assessment. An effective assessment process • addresses the family's questions about enhancing
their child's development, focusing on each family member's concerns and priorities
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IFSP
• An effective assessment process • collects information for a specific purpose, for
example, the evaluation conducted by the early interventionist at the beginning of the IFSP process determines if the child is eligible for services
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IFSP
•An effective assessment process
• reflects a complete and accurate picture of the child's strengths, needs, preferences for activities, materials, and environments
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IFSP
• An effective assessment process
• has a person familiar to the child conduct observations and other assessments in settings familiar to the child (e.g., home, outdoor play area, child care program)
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IFSP
• Collaboratively Develop Expected Outcomes. • The team meets to review the information and
the family's concerns, priorities, and resources to develop statements of expected outcomes or goals. • Active family involvement is essential. • Collaborative goals focus on enhancing the
family's capacity and increasing the child's participation in valued activities.
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IFSP
• Assign Intervention Responsibilities • After outcomes are identified, the early
intervention team assigns responsibilities for intervention services that support those outcomes.
• An IFSP requires an integrated, team approach to intervention.
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IFSP• Identify Strategies to Implement the Plan• Work closely as a team to increase learning
opportunities, • to use the child's surroundings to facilitate learning, • to select the most effective strategies to bring about the
desired outcomes, • identify reinforcers that best support the child's learning.
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Implementation
• Implementation may involve • a toddler participating in a library story hour one
afternoon a week; • a physical therapist showing family members how to use
adaptive equipment; • a service coordinator completing the paperwork to pay
for a child's transportation from his or her home to needed services.
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IFSP
• Intervention strategies should help promote generalization of outcomes—
• i.e., the child performs new skills in a variety of environments after intervention has ended.
• For example, both service providers and family members can encourage a child to request desired objects (e.g, toys) with gestures in numerous environments (e.g., home, playgroup, child care).
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IFSP
• Interventions should target several outcomes during one activity. • When a child participates in an activity, he or she uses a
variety of skills from a number of developmental areas. • For example, during mealtimes, a toddler may use
communication skills to request more juice, fine motor skills to grasp a spoon, a social skills to interact with a sibling.
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IFSP
• Intervention strategies should help a child become more independent in his or her world. • offering physical assistance during mealtimes, • prompting the correct response during a self-care
routine, • providing simple pull-on clothing to enable a child to
dress without assistance.
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IFSP
• Be embedded in everyday natural environments. • Emphasize the acquisition of functional
competencies. • Make it possible to increase a child's participation
within the environments. • Include both social and non-social activities
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IFSP
• Both ongoing and periodic evaluations are essential to any early intervention program. An evaluation may focus on a child's progress toward obtaining desired outcomes and upon the quality of the intervention program itself. Ongoing monitoring of the child's progress requires keeping records in a systematic manner in order to answer such critical questions as
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IFSP
• To what extent and at what rate is the child making progress toward attaining outcomes? • Are the selected intervention strategies and
activities promoting gains in development? • Do changes need to be made in the intervention
plan?
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IFSP
This ongoing process provides a continual support to the family and child as they realize their own strengths and resources to help their child learn.
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Service Coordinator
•A service coordinator will help support the family's participation throughout the planning and development of the IFSP.
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Service Coordinator
•The IFSP should be created within 45 days of the family's first contact expressing their concerns.
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Service Coordinator
•The initial IFSP should be based primarily on information accumulated during the initial evaluation and assessment process.
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IFSP•The IFSP process must include the following components and be documented in some way.
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IFSP
•The child's present level of development, including strengths, interests and areas of concern.
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IFSP•The family's concerns, priorities and resources as they relate to enhancing the development of the infant or toddler with a developmental delay or disability.
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IFSP•A statement of the major outcomes (or goals) expected to be achieved for the child and family.
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IFSP•It should include the criteria, procedures and timelines used to determine the degree to which progress toward achieving the outcomes is being made.
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IFSP•Supports and services to achieve the stated outcomes provided within the child's and family's daily routines and activities.
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IFSP•Supports and services should •match the family's culture and interests. •make use of and strengthen learning opportunities throughout the day and in places where the family spends time.
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IFSP•The projected dates of when the services will begin, how often they will occur and how long they will last.
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IFSP•A variety of funding resources may be used to pay for these services including state and federal government resources, private insurance, family resources and/or local agencies.
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IFSP•The name of the service coordinator. • This person is the family's primary contact for
assistance throughout the IFSP process, and is responsible for the implementation of the plan and coordination with other agencies and people.
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IFSP•The service coordinator should also connect the family with other families and ensure that they understand their rights and procedural safeguards under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
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IFSP• A plan for transition to special education
services or other appropriate resources and supports in the home, community, and/or preschool services when the child turns three years old. The service coordinator must initiate this plan at least six months before the child's third birthday.