Past (What I Knew Before) Present (What I Know Now)
List the things you knew List the things you now know (or
(whether facts, myths, current will learn in this course) about
or old habits/practices) quality IFSPs or IEPs.
about IFSPs or IEPs.
Include 3-5 most important
things under IFSP/IEP
The family outcome development, implementation,
should be at home and and progress
with parents. monitoring, particularly
The outcome goal is practices that promote each of
usually 6 month. the following:
Every year, we create Child participation &
new IFSP for the engagement
family. Positive adult-child
IFSP is for children at interactions
age 0 to 3. And there Successful child transitions,
are certain eligibility both formal and informal
needs to meet before Family competence,
entering the program. empowerment, advocacy
IFSP transition process skills, quality of life
begin 6 month before
child turns three.
Service coordinator IFSP development:
helps family to schedule o First, legal
time for determine foundation is
eligibility and introduce important for both
Help Me Grow. engaged family and
intervention
specialists. As
developing IFSP, we
need to understand
what to do, how to
do, and when to do.
o Second, families are
the experts on their
child and important
members of the
team. Including
families in
identifying a
practitioner from
the team.
o Third, IFSP
outcomes can focus
on the family, as
well as the child.
Especially, I learn
how to write the
family outcome.
How do the family
want to learn? What
change do we want
to see?
Future (What I Will Do)
Knowing what you now know,
how will you make changes to
your current or future practice to
improve IFSP or IEP quality?
Describe what you will do in the
context of these elements of the
IFSP/IEP process:
Development
Implementation
Progress Monitoring
What will you do within the
IFSP/IEP process to support:
Childs participation and
engagement
Positive adult-child
interactions
Successful child transitions,
both formal and informal
Familys competence,
empowerment, advocacy
skills, quality of life?
For the outcome that I
created this time, I feel
that how to collaborate
with other profession is
what I want to learn more.
Especially, with the
outcome that combined
with PT and DSs
profession, how we share
information with family
without overlapping or
with same direction
toward the outcome.
As the child with more
challenge disability, how
do I have a conversation
with the family about the
balance between private
therapies and services at
home.
Although IFSP has their
formal way to monitor
progress, I will want to
provide the family
informal way to help
family understand how
their children grow and
improve.
 o Forth, through What further supports will you
creating child need to implement a high quality
outcome, age- IFSP/IEP process/product, and
appropriate, in the how will you seek out those
context of natural supports?
environment,
having learning Cultural competence: how to
opportunities are all work with an interpreter to
critical factors. communicate with the
o Fifth, the date of family; how do I understand
accomplishing their cultures; how does
outcomes should be their culture affect their
meaningful for the ways of educating children.
family. During IFSP process, I will
IFSP Implementation: need support from people
o How to decide who work with the same
frequency and culture to discuss the
intensity of early problems that I have. Also, I
intervention? A will need support from an
family-centered and interpreter to understand
family- generated what her role is and what
my role is to help me have
goals: We need to
effective interaction with the
consider how
family.
caregivers can
In my internship class, I felt
carryover the
that IFSP implementation
strategies before
takes time to provide
determining the
families strategies. As the
times.
support that I need, I would
o Learning say, first, the research-
opportunities for based resources; second,
children: what does discuss with the team to
it look like? They understand how to
are actively implement and what
exploring, strategies are suitable for the
manipulating, and family.
interacting with
people, materials,
and objects. Think beyond your own
o The concept of (individual) IFSP/IEP practices.
dosage is new for How will you influence positive
me. It is the changes within your team or
frequency and organization?
amount of
treatment. I learned Outcome statement: I
from Dosage struggled to put the
Decisions for Early quality outcome for the
Intervention Services family. When I learned
(Kuhn and Marvin, from the class about IFSP
2015), amount of outcome statement
time that an differing in the field, I want
individual child must to keep the knowledge in
engaged and mind and try to create
participate in session more professional, visual,
or service to show and individualized for the
measurable
 functional progress. family. I will organize the
This is the factor to workshop to discuss with
consider when the the team about writing
family and team IFSP outcome and use OAT
discuss about time, as a reflection.
frequency, and IFSP progress monitor
length. system: I will gather idea
IFSP progress monitoring: from professionals to help
o Three areas to the team learn how to
measure-1) gain create a way to monitor
positive social progress, for example, if
emotional skills; 2) mom is using calendar, she
learning and using can simply jot down
knowledge and frequency of the child
skills; 3) using doing a skill. Creative and
appropriate simply way to help the
behaviors to meet family feel their children
their needs. do improve. Also, it helps
o Progress monitor is us to understand the
important for service quality that we
updating IFSP and provide for the family.
making sure that
the child is receiving
the services needed
to his or her goals.
o How do EI assist
caregivers to
monitor progress:
provide some
factors that can help
mom to see the how
can track (length,
action, duration);
help mom create
useful tools to
monitor progress.

Reference

Kuhn, M. & Marvin, C. (2016). Dosage Decisions for Early Intervention Services. Young
Exceptional Children, 19(4), 20-34. doi:10.1177/1096250615576807