Early Intervention and Education Guidelines and Requirements

• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

• Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities (Part C of IDEA) National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC) Part C Information Page

• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)

  • IDEA 2004: Provides an overview of the entire law
    
    
  • http://nichcy.org/schoolage/iep/iepcontents/relatedservices: Provides valuable information about IDEA's coverage of related services for children who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing, such as monitoring of hearing devices, use of amplification systems in the classrooms, etc.
    
    
• *Espanol: Centro Nacional de Diseminación de Información para Niños con Discapacidades, IDEA 2004
  

• Early Intervention Best Practice Guidelines and Information

• Alexander Graham Bell Early Intervention Best Practice Model (PDF)

• The National Agenda: Moving Forward on Achieving Educational Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students (April 2005) Goal One: Early Identification and Intervention
  

• Report and Recommendations of 2004 National Consensus Conference on Effective Educational and Health Care Intervention for Infants and Young Children with Hearing Loss (PDF)