Module II: Evaluation and Assessment
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 Evaluation and Assessment training:
- Demonstrate ability to participate as a team member with families and other professionals in planning and conducting family-centered evaluation and assessment activities that identify the child’s functional abilities in the family’s daily routines.
- Demonstrate ability to use a screening, evaluation, and assessment of infant and toddler development by selecting and using a variety of culturally-sensitive methods and procedures (including observational methods) as guided by the family’s needs, concerns, and priorities for their child’s development.
- Demonstrate ability to gather information from families in a sensitive and respectful manner.
- As a team member with the family, demonstrate ability to discuss screening, evaluation, and assessment information in understandable language and in the context of the child’s strengths.
- In developing and implementing the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), including the outcomes, with the family and other team members, demonstrate ability to use evaluation and assessment information to identify effective strategies and activities within the natural environment and daily routines, and finally, identify resources that address those outcomes.
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