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First Steps: Service Coordinator
Unit IV Lesson 1: Health services
A note before we begin - this Unit is based around the statutes that govern how services are delivered. The law is the framework that surrounds your expectations as a service coordinator. This framework is something you must read and understand. The statutes are written in a manner that makes them easy to understand but not the most exciting reading. There is quite a bit of reading so now is the time to take a break before you get started!
Sec. 303.13 Health services.
(a) As used in this part, health services means services necessary to enable a child to benefit from the other early intervention services under this part during the time that the child is receiving the other early intervention services.
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(b) The term includes—
1. Such services as clean intermittent catheterization, tracheostomy care, tube feeding, the changing of dressings or colostomy collection bags, and other health services; and
2. Consultation by physicians with other service providers concerning the special health care needs of eligible children that will need to be addressed in the course of providing other early intervention services.
(c) The term does not include the following:
1. Services that are—
i. Surgical in nature (such as cleft palate surgery, surgery for club foot, or the shunting of hydrocephalus); or
ii. Purely medical in nature (such as hospitalization for management of congenital heart ailments, or the prescribing of medicine or drugs for any purpose).
2. Devices necessary to control or treat a medical condition.
3. Medical-health services (such as immunizations and regular “well-baby” care) that are routinely recommended for all children.
(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1432(4))
Note: The definition in this section distinguishes between the health services that are required under this part and the medical-health services that are not required. The IFSP requirements in subpart D of this part provide that, to the extent appropriate, these other medical-health services are to be included in the IFSP, along with the funding sources to be used in paying for the services or the steps that will be taken to secure the services through public or private sources. Identifying these services in the IFSP does not impose an obligation to provide the services if they are otherwise not required to be provided under this part. (See Sec. 303.344(e) and the note 3 following that section.)
This is such an important overview of the service coordination process that we needed to look at it from the beginning to the end. Now, let’s look at the activities that make up this stage of the IFSP process.
If you have not reviewed the to IFSP form previously, click below on the URL http://dese.mo.gov/divspeced/FirstSteps/pdfs/Forms/IFSPFrm.pdf
Instructions for the IFSP are found at:
http://dese.mo.gov/divspeced/FirstSteps/pdfs/Forms/IFSPInstrucFinal.pdf
The following is a link to the Guidance and Exemplars for Missouri First Steps IFSP Quality Indicators Rating Scale. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the guidance provided in this document.
http://www.dese.state.mo.us/divspeced/FirstSteps/pdfs/IFSPGuidanceExemplars.pdf