Educational Support Services facilitates the special education system to identify, evaluate, and support children with disabilities from birth to age 21. It provides a variety of learning experiences and services like home instruction, health services, and positive behavior support. Services are individually designed based on a child's Individual Family Service Plan or Individualized Education Plan and can be provided in settings like classrooms, homes, and community locations to address their unique needs. Anyone can refer a child if they have developmental concerns in areas such as autism, learning disabilities, speech/language issues, and more.

1. Educational
Support Services
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2. Educational
Support Services• facilitates the Special
Education system that
locates, identifies, evaluates
and supports all children with
disabilities, birth to age 21
• provide a variety of learning
experiences designed to

3. • Home Instruction, Health
Services and the Positive
Behavior Support Program
• A continuum of services are
provided for students, ages
birth to 21, who have
developmental delays or
Educational Support Services

4. Any child, age birth to 21, who may have
developmental concerns may be referred. Areas of
concern may include:
•Autism
•Communication disorder: speech and language
impairment
•Deafness/blindness
•Emotional disturbance

5. •Hearing impairment
•Developmental delay
•Orthopedic impairment
•Other health impairment
•Specific learning disability
•Traumatic brain injury
•Visual impairment: partially sighted and/or
blind

6. referrals may come from anyone
common referrals come from:
parents
teachers
physicians, and
other public agencies

7. How does a child qualify
1. Referral
2. Screening
3.
Eligibility/evaluations
4. Eligibility
determination

8. 5. Individual Family Service
Plan (IFSP) ages birth to 5 or an
Individualized Education Plan
(IEP) ages 5 to 21. Parents are
always significant members of
an IFSP or IEP team.
6. Placement: Based on
goals identified in the IFSP, by
the IFSP team or IEP, by the

9. What kinds of
services are
provided to children
and families?
Services are individually
designed to address the special
needs of children. These
services may include the
following:
•Special education/specially
designed
instruction

10. Services may be
provided in any of
the following
settings:
• Classrooms
• Specialized
classrooms
• Community
• Home
• Parent
groups (ages
birth to 5)
• Toddler
groups
• Residential
• Detention
• Correction