Understanding Individualized Plans

8 steps to a "Good Faith" effort in IEP developing

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• Make every attempt to sustain relationships.
• Keep the focus on the child's needs.
• Have a back-up plan.
• Build your record.
• Walk a mile in the other side's shoes

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• Listen actively, especially to what you dont want to hear
• Encourage everyone to love your child!
• Have faith!

Pros and Cons of ISFP

IFSP
Individualized Family Service Plan

IFSP is the individualized educational plan given to a child before the age of three.

Pros

• Shows child's strengths
• List the goals you want your child to achieve
• Strategies to reach the goals
• Determine future services
• Beginning steps to help with transition

Cons

• Young age and not developed
• unclear signs of disabilities
• Family based not child based
• Not education based
• Family's goals not child's goals

Transition plan

Transition Services

• focus on improving child's academic achievement
• facilitate the movement to post secondary school
• based on individual's needs
• Child's strengths, preferences, and interests
• related services

Transitions occor in developmental phases over the lifespan. It is required to be covered throughout the child's IEP.This is an ongoing process.