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COS
What is Child Outcome Summary?
guides COS team members through a series of questions that help them apply criteria for an accurate summary rating
What is the COS Decision Tree?
-Positive Social Emotional Skills
-Acquiring/Using Knowledge and Skills
-Use of Appropriate Behaviors to Meet Needs
What are the 3 Child Outcomes?
skills are two or more steps away from age-expected functioning in the developmental progression
What is Foundational?
process of examining a child’s current functional abilities, skills, and behaviors to determine how close that functioning is to expectations for their chronological age
What is age-anchoring?
skills are those in the broad range of what is expected for the child’s chronological age
What is Age-Expected?
showing interest in learning, engaging in purposeful play, acquiring language/communication
What is Acquiring/Using Knowledge and Skills?
showing safety awareness, communicating needs, moving around/manipulating to meet needs
What is Use of Appropriate Behaviors to Meet Needs?
skills are those appearing just before age-expected functioning in the sequence of development
What is Immediate Foundational?
interacting to caregivers/peers, Expressing own emotions/responding to emotions, participating with peers
What is Positive Social Emotional Skills?
team process to discuss and rate a child’s functioning on 7-point scale in each of the three outcomes
What is the COS Process?
represents snapshots that summarize the child’s overall functioning at one given point in time
What is COS rating?
Scenario #6
What is 1?
an infographic that shows the six "skill bundles" for each outcome, which are used throughout the COS process
What is the "Breadth of the Three Child Outcomes"?
integrated across domains, functional, global, interdependent with family outcomes
What the characteristics of the three child outcomes?
a benefit experienced as a result of services and supports received; what happens as a result of services provided
What is an outcome?
provides criteria for each point on the rating scale based on the mix of AE, IF, and F skills observed in the child’s functioning
What is the 7-Point Rating Scale Criteria?
helps us to understand if our programs provide services that make a difference for children and families
What is why we measure child outcomes?
required COS ratings that must be completed
What are the Entry and Exit COS?
-means the child has an AE skill in their repertoire and uses it in a meaningful way with some consistency (that is, at least occasionally), even if it is not observed in every setting or situation
-does not mean the child has performed an AE skill once in their life.
What does “ever” mean?
Scenario #1
What is 4?
Scenario #2
What is 2?
Scenario #3
What is 6?
Scenario #4
What is 4?
Scenario #5
What is 5?