IDEA
The acronym "IDEA" stands for the name of this federal act.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
What is birth to three years?
True or false: Parents must legally comply with an evaluation for early intervention services, even if they disagree with it.
What is false?
Parent consent is required for both the evaluation process and the IFSP, just like special education and IEPs.
In Illinois, this is the age range to receive services for a developmental delay.
What is birth to nine years?
This term refers to the process of identifying and evaluating all children eligible for special education services.
What is Child Find?
This section of IDEA outlines early intervention supports and services.
What is Part C?
Most early intervention services are provided in this location, if possible.
What is the child's home (or other natural environment)?
True or false: transportation is considered an eligible early intervention service under IDEA.
What is true?
True or false: every state must follow the federal definition of developmental delay stated in IDEA.
What is false?
IDEA broadly outlines developmental delay, but states determine the exact definitions.
After aging out of early intervention services, children might continue to receive services through this program.
What is special education?
Just like a child in special education receives an IEP, a child in early intervention will receive this document that outlines goals, benchmarks, services, and supports.
What is an Individual Family Service Plan?
What is a multidisciplinary team?
While an IEP focuses on helping a child meet educational goals, this is the purpose for an IFSP.
What is to help the family best support the child's development?
What is 30%?
One of the ways a child can qualify as "at risk" for developmental delay is by having a parent who has at least one of these two conditions.
What is a severe mental health disorder or a developmental disability?
True or false: Early intervention services are not mandatory in every U.S. state or territory.
What is false?
Because IDEA is federal law, every state and territory must offer early intervention.
If a child in Illinois cannot be assessed using the state-approved assessment tools, qualified staff can use this to determine whether or not the child has a developmental delay.
What is informed clinical judgment?
True or false: Counseling for family members (not the child with the delay) might be included as an early intervention service in the ISFP.
What is true?
True or false: In Illinois, a child might be eligible for services under the category of developmental delay even if they are not yet showing delays in an eligible domain.
Under certain circumstances, a child might be eligible under the definition of "at risk" for developmental delay, or due to a medical condition.
Indigenous children living on a tribal reservation; children who are homeless, wards of the state, or in foster care; children who are the subject of a substantiated case of child abuse or neglect; and children who are directly affected by substance use or prenatal drug exposure are classified by this term under the Child Find requirements.
What are populations of concern?
ISFPs must be reviewed this often.
What is every six months?
This source can identify and refer a child for early intervention services.
What is a primary referral source?
LOTS of people are primary referral sources: parents, doctors, child welfare professionals, basically anyone who interacts professionally with the child in an education/health/well-being context
True or false: Under IDEA, early intervention services must be free in all states.
What is both/it depends?
Certain services (especially those pertaining to evaluation and IFSP development) are federally mandated to be free. Other, more specialized services may have costs determined by individual states.
These are the five areas/domains in which developmental delays can be diagnosed.
What are physical, cognitive, communication, social/emotional, and adaptive functioning?
In order to qualify as having a developmental delay due to a medical condition, a child's condition must meet these two criteria.
What are to be approved by DHS as likely to result in a developmental delay and for a qualified physician that the condition is likely to result in developmental delay?