documenting family outcomes: decisions, alternatives, next steps don bailey, ph.d. mary beth bruder,...
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3 ECO Center Tasks: Family Outcomes Involve stakeholders to identify family outcomes that could be used in early intervention and preschool programs Provide guidance to states in documenting the extent to which family outcomes are attained Develop and evaluate the usefulness of an alternative measure for states to use in documenting family outcomesTRANSCRIPT
Documenting Family Documenting Family Outcomes:Outcomes:
Decisions, Alternatives, Next Decisions, Alternatives, Next StepsSteps
Don Bailey, Ph.D.Mary Beth Bruder, Ph.D.
Contact information:Mary Beth Bruder, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut A.J. Pappanikou Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service
263 Farmington Avenue, MC6222Farmington, CT 06030Phone: (860) 679-1500
Fax: (860) 679-1571E-mail:[email protected]: www.uconnucedd.org
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What is a Family Outcome?What is a Family Outcome? A benefit experienced by families as a result
of services and supports received An outcome is not the receipt of services or
satisfaction with services An outcome is what happens as a result of
services provided to families
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ECO Center Tasks: Family ECO Center Tasks: Family OutcomesOutcomes Involve stakeholders to identify family
outcomes that could be used in early intervention and preschool programs
Provide guidance to states in documenting the extent to which family outcomes are attained
Develop and evaluate the usefulness of an alternative measure for states to use in documenting family outcomes
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ECO Family OutcomesECO Family Outcomes
Understand their child’s strengths, abilities, and special needs
Know their rights and advocate effectively for their children
Help their children develop and learn
Have support systems Access desired services,
programs, activities in their community
ECO
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ECO Family Outcomes and OSEP ECO Family Outcomes and OSEP APR Requirements [Part C only]APR Requirements [Part C only]
Understand their child’s strengths, abilities, and special needs
Know their rights and advocate effectively for their children
Help their children develop and learn
Have support systems Access desired services,
programs, activities in their community
Percent of families participating in Part C who report that EI services have helped the family
Know their rights Effectively communicate
their children’s needs Help their children
develop and learn
ECO OSEP
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Guidance to States Document, Part 1: Guidance to States Document, Part 1: Measurement DecisionsMeasurement Decisions What data collection mechanism will be
used? What will be the source of data collected? Whose outcome is being reported? What will be the format and content of the
items? What will be the format of the responses? How long will the measure be?
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Guidance to States Document, Part 2: Guidance to States Document, Part 2: Implementation DecisionsImplementation Decisions How will the assessment of family outcomes fit with
existing initiatives? Who (if anyone) is responsible for local data
collection? Will data be anonymous or linked to IDs? When and how often will data be collected? Who is responsible for data collection and
aggregation at the state level? Who will convert data into evidence statements and
how? Will results be confidential at level of family or
program?
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Guidance to States Document, Part 3: Guidance to States Document, Part 3: Instrument OptionsInstrument Options Adding items to existing state surveys Using recently developed measures
NEILS interview items NCSEAM Impact on Family Scale Family Benefits Inventory ECO Center’s Family Outcomes Survey
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Status of Guidance DocumentStatus of Guidance Document
Draft of introduction and Part I (Measurement Decisions) has been completed
Instrument descriptions and links will be added within the month.
Guidance document should be posted mid-fall 2005
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ECO Scale:ECO Scale:Family Outcomes SurveyFamily Outcomes Survey Three items for each of the five proposed
family outcomes Three additional items (also in 7-point scale)
for states to gather APR-related data
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A. Families understand their child’s A. Families understand their child’s strengths, abilities, and special needsstrengths, abilities, and special needs
• A.1. Understanding your child’s development and how it compares with other children
• A.2. Knowing about your child’s special needs or disability
• A.3. Being able to tell whether the things professionals are doing are making a difference in development and/or behavior
C. Helping your child develop and learn
C.1. All parents help their children learn and develop. Sometimes it can be hard to know what to do. How confident are you in your ability to help your child develop and learn?
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We can care for our child, but need a lot of information on how to help our child learn and develop
We know the basics of helping our child learn and develop, but still have many questions
We feel pretty confident in our ability to help our child learn and develop
We are very confident in our ability to help our child learn and develop
C.2. All parents help their children behave appropriately. Sometimes it can be hard to know what to do when your child is not behaving the way you want. How confident are you in your ability to help your child learn to behave appropriately?
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We need a lot of information on how to help our child learn to behave appropriately
We know the basics of helping our child behave appropriately, but still have many questions
We feel pretty confident in our ability to help our child behave appropriately
We are very confident in our ability to help our child behave appropriately
C.3. Your child has an Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) that describes outcomes or goals that you helped develop for your child. The IFSP also describes the services to be provided by professionals. But families spend most of their time with their children without professionals around. Are you able to help your child learn or practice IFSP outcomes or goals during your home and community activities or routines?
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We have not yet started to help our child learn or practice these goals
We have started to help our child learn and practice these goals, but it is not a regular thing yet
We often help our child learn or practice these goals in our activities or routines, but it is not as regular as we would like
We regularly help our child learn or practice these goals throughout our daily activities and routines