Module III: IFSP outcomes in natural environments
Competencies
First Steps training is competency-based and leads to outcomes that reflect that competence. Competency statements have been developed for Missouri’s early intervention personnel. These statements delineate the core knowledge and skills that are expected of personnel who provide early intervention services.
The following competencies are targeted in the First Steps IFSP Outcomes in Natural Environments training:
1. Demonstrate the ability to implement and to monitor an IFSP.
2. Demonstrate the ability to support and to facilitate family and child interactions as the primary method for development and learning.
3. Demonstrate the ability to select and to implement developmentally and functionally appropriate individual and group activities that enhance infant and toddler learning.
4. Demonstrate the ability to develop and to implement interventions.
5. Demonstrate the ability to implement policies and procedures that support children and families as they transition into, within, and from the First Steps system.
6. Demonstrate understanding of the distinction between a medical model (wherein various therapies are the focal point of the program) and family oriented/family capacity building where the focal point is to build a family’s capacity to deal with those issues surrounding developmental delays and other appropriate medical issues with their infants and toddlers.
7. Demonstrate awareness of health, nutrition, and safety practices for young children.
8. Demonstrate the ability to gather information from families in a sensitive and respectful manner.
9. As a team member with the family, demonstrate the ability to discuss screening, evaluation, and assessment information (including informed clinical opinion) in understandable language without jargon and in the context of the child’s strengths.
10. When developing and implementing the IFSP (including the outcomes with the family and other team members), demonstrate the ability to use evaluation and assessment information to identify effective strategies and activities within the natural environment and daily routines and to identify resources that address those outcomes.
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