Workshops/How To Work With Families

• Child Focus
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Foster Parent Training - Options For Youth
• Inclusion in Schools: Real and Perceived Views of Full Inclusion - Dark Ages? Bright Futures
• Infants and Toddlers in Your Care: How to Nurture 0-3 Year-Olds in Group Care and at Home
• Learning and Teaching Styles
• Preparing Personnel to Work With Parents and Families
• Reducing Stress in the Lives of Young Chlldren
• Sample Forms for Teachers
• Ask Dr. Susan

Checklist of Parents' Rights in Early Intervention

 

 

PARENTS SHOULD BE INFORMED THAT THEY HAVE THE FOLLOWING RIGHTS:

             a)  the right to a timely, multidisciplinary assessment;

             b)  the right, if eligible, to appropriate early intervention services for their child and  family;

             c)  the right to refuse evaluations, assessments and services;

             d)  the right to notice before a change is made or refused in the identification, evaluation,  or
                   placement of the child, or in the provision of services to the child or family;

             e)  the right to confidentiality of personally identifiable information.

             f)  the right to review and correct records;

             g)  the right to be invited to and to attend and participate in all meetings in which a decision is
                  expected to be made regarding a proposal to change the identification,  evaluation, or  
                  placement of the child or the provision of services to the child or  family;

             h)  the right to utilize an advocate or lawyer in any or all dealings with the early intervention
                  system;

             i)  the right to utilize administrative and judicial processes to resolve complaints.

 

SOURCE: Espe-Sherwindt, M. (1996).  Ohio Early Start and the IFSP.  Statewide Early Intervention Training Project, Family Child Learning    Center.  Columbus, OH:  Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Early Intervention Services.