Growing Great Kids™ Curriculum Exceeds E/HS Curriculum Requirements and Standards

 

Head Start Curriculum Requirements

The Growing Great Kids Prenatal – 5 Years (GGK), Home and Center Based Curricula Series offers an individually tailored, uniquely enriching experience for children, their parents and their teachers. The GGK Series and training programs are grounded in the following guiding principles:

  • Relationships are primary for a child’s growth and development.
  • A child’s culture is central to his/her identify.
  • Parents nurturing responses and parenting skills provide the foundation for a child’s lifelong well being.
  • Teachers and home visitors have a responsibility to motivate and support parents to nurture and enrich their child’s development.
  • Young children learn holistically.
  • Children in families benefit from positive social connections in their communities.
  • All children can learn and thrive with the right type of stimulation and encouragement.
  • Parents are adult learners who grow best when their values and opinions are sought out, respected and built upon.
  • When is comes to learning, practice makes permanent!

 

Early Head Start Curriculum Checklist

The Growing Great Kids Home and Center Based Curricula Series exceeds all Head Start Curriculum requirements. For each requirement, examples of how Growing Great Kids meets these requirements are provided below. For more information, please call 608.284.2010.

 

Head Start Curriculum Checklist. . .Does the curriculum:

* Promote interactive learning and encourage the child's construction of knowledge?

Growing Great Kids Home Visiting, Child Development and Parenting Curricula provide interactive conversation guides to use with parents. The Home and Center Based Child Development Activities have their foundations in interactive learning principles that support the child’s learning and the parent’s critical and creative thinking skills.

* Help children achieve social, emotional, linguistic, physical, and cognitive goals?

Home Visitors and Teachers/Caregivers learn 6 essential parenting/caregiving skill sets aimed at obtaining optimal developmental outcomes in all domains. For every 3-6 months of a child’s development, the GGK curriculum includes the following modules: Basic Care (Health, Nutrition, Safety, Routines, etc.), Social and Emotional Development, Cues and Communication, Physical and Brain Development, Play and Stimulation and Parent’s Corner (age-specific parenting concerns/skills).

 

* Encourage development of positive feelings and dispositions toward learning while leading to acquisition of knowledge and skills?

Parents, Teacher/Caregivers and Home Visitors learn to use a simple strategy with each other and the children in their care that results in positive attitudes towards learning, joyful learning experiences and the desire to put effort into learning.

 

* Have expectations that are realistic and attainable at this time?

Growing Great Kids Curricula materials provide Home Visitors, Parents and Teachers with checklists for typical development as well as conversation guides for generating discussions with parents related to their developmental expectations. Curricula materials include activities parents, teachers and caregivers can to use to support age- and development-sensitive growth.

 

* Include children with disabilities in the curriculum?

Growing Great Kids is designed to be used emergently, offering Home Visitors and Teachers a user-friendly structure for selecting and adapting developmentally competent interventions.

 

* Build and elaborate on children's current knowledge and abilities?

Developmental checklists are provided at regular intervals for determining a child’s strengths, as well as areas for enhanced developmental support.

 

* Lead to conceptual understanding by helping children construct their own understanding in meaningful contexts?

Through the Growing Great Kids Certification Program, Home Visitors and Teachers/Caregivers learn to be responsive to infant/child cues and signals, the principles of and how to enhance child directed play, and the importance of the parent-child relationship in development

 

* Facilitate concept learning and skills development in an integrated and natural way?

Growing Great Kids is grounded in using the child’s natural environment and everything in it to cultivate relationships and enrich development.

 

* Challenge children with disabilities to attain goals beyond those specified in the IEP/IFSP?

Growing Great Kids includes a Growing Great Families Curriculum manual that provides tools for Home Visitors and Teachers to help parents reach for their motivation and dreams for their children so they will have the best chance for achieving optimal developmental goals.

 

* Permit flexibility for children and teachers?

The Growing Great Kids Certification and Staff Development Program builds skills for using the curricula materials emergently, tailoring home visits, classroom activities, socialization groups or interactions with parents to the needs and wishes of all members of their families.

 

* Encourage active learning and frequently allow children to make meaningful choices?

GGK includes hundreds of child development activities, written for Parents, Teachers and Home Visitors, with developmental goals and instructions for using them interactively with children. Child Directed Play is encouraged while teaching parents and caregivers to enhance the child’s creative and critical thinking.

 

* Foster children's exploration and inquiry, rather than focusing on "right" answers or "right" ways to complete a task?

During Growing Great Kids Certification Seminars, Home Visitors and Teachers learn targeted skills sets for stimulating the child’s curiosity and the pleasure in learning that result in children being motivated to explore.

 

* Promote the development of higher order abilities, such as thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making?

Home Visitors and Teachers learn how to motivate parents to interact with children in ways that engage their critical thinking. Additionally, Home Visitors learn how to raise a parent’s awareness, how to analyze one’s thoughts and actions and how to be intentional as they interact with their child.

 

* Promote and encourage social interaction among children and adults?

Through the Growing Great Families modules, parents learn the value of social and cultural connections and how to creatively utilize support systems to strengthen their family and enrich their child’s development. The entire curriculum is written within the context of the parent’s and child’s social relationships.

 

* Respect children's psychological needs for activity, sensory stimulation, fresh air, rest, and nourishment?

Growing Great Kids’s holistic approach encourages Home Visitors and Teachers to respect a child’s needs for movement, good nutrition and richly stimulating in- and outdoor environments.

 

* Promote feelings of safety, security, and belonging?

With a persistent focus on a child’s need for attachment relationships and feelings of security, GGK continuously reminds Home Visitors, Parents and Teachers of the child’s most basic emotional needs and how to meet them.

 

* Provide experiences that promote feelings of success, competence, and enjoyment of learning?

GGK Seminar participants learn about Dr. Bruce Perry’s Cycle of Mastery and practice using a GGK Daily Do (Parenting/Caregiver Skill Set) aimed at stimulating the child’s curiosity to learn and the pride that comes with putting forth effort and accomplishing new tasks.

 

* Promote positive relationships with families?

The Growing Great Kids Curricula Series is unique in that it includes a family strengthening component. It provides training opportunities targeting the human service component of the EHS program which builds essential skills for using a strength-based and solution focused approach with program families. When utilizing communication strategies learned, families want to participate and are motivated to be the best parents they can be.

 

 

Growing Great Kids/Head Start Performance Standards Crosswalk

The Growing Great Kids Curriculum Series was specifically written to address the requirements and comply with the standards of programs working with vulnerable, highly stressed, low-income families. Our unique focus on strengthening the family and providing step-by-step guidance for cultivating secure attachment relationships, sets Growing Great Kids apart from other curricula. A sample Growing Great Kids – Head Start Standard Crosswalk document below shows how the Growing Great Kids Prenatal – 36 months Curriculum exceeds Head Start Compliance Monitoring requirements.  

Growing Great Kids/Head Start Performance Standards

 

 

Head Start
Performance Standard

Growing Great Kids
Compliance

1304.40

Family Partnerships

  1. Family Goal Setting

 Growing Great Families Unit 1, Growing Goals: Creating Individual Family Support Plans; Supporting Parents Working Towards Goals; Learning About Family Values and Strengths: The Foundation for Supporting Growth; Cultural Values, Traditions and Family Practices.

  1. Accessing Community Services and Resources

 Growing Great Families Unit 2, Identifying Personal Strengths and Expanding Coping Skills and Support Systems; A Road Map For Addressing Concerns with Families.

  1. Services to Pregnant Women who are Enrolled in Programs Serving Pregnant Women, Infants, and Toddlers

 Growing Great Kids Prenatal modules: Healthy Pregnancy…Healthy Baby; Emotional and Physical Responses to Pregnancy; The Development of the Pre birth Baby; Preparing for Labor and Delivery; Bringing Baby Home. Growing Great Kids Birth to 12 Months: Unit 0-3 months Basic Care.

  1. Parent Involvement General

 Curriculum is designed to be used emergently so that parents can choose modules that meet their families/child’s current needs, issues and interests. The curriculum is written from a strength-based, solution-focused perspective which means respecting parents as the authorities of their own lives and supporting them to uphold the responsibility for solving their problems. Six essential parenting skills, the Daily Do’s for parents, are introduced to parents when their children are young infants. These six skill sets are related to nurturing their children and supporting their children’s development in all domains. Home Visitor learn how to motivate parents to practice these 6 essential skills and to apply them in an age appropriate manner. Home Visitors learn to reinforce the practice of these Daily Do’s on an emergent basis during home visits.

  1. Parent Involvement in Child Development and Education

 Curriculum is built upon the principles of adult learning to assist, encourage and support parents as they foster the growth and development of their children. Curriculum is conversation based and encourages parents to use home materials and family routines to help children learn concepts.

  1. Parent Involvement in Health, Nutrition, and Mental Health education

 Growing Great Families: Unit 1, Parental Expectations; Planning a Family; Unit 2, Identifying Personal Strengths and Expanding Coping Skills and Support Systems; What Happened to My Needs When I became a Parent; Becoming Your Own Personal Coach; Warning Signals for Stress Overload; Refocusing on Parenting During Times of Stress. Growing Great Kids Prenatal: Emotional and Physical Responses to Pregnancy; Healthy Pregnancy…Healthy Baby; Reducing Your Stress Index; Nourishing Your Heart and Soul. Growing Great Kids: Birth to 12 months: Basic Care Modules; Social and Emotional Modules; Cues and Communication Modules; Physical and Brain Development Modules; Play and Stimulation Modules. 13 to 24 months: Basic Care Modules; Social and Emotional Modules; Cues and Communication Modules; Physical and Brain Development Modules; Play and Stimulation Modules. 25 to 36 months: Basic Care Modules; Social and Emotional Modules; Cues and Communication Modules; Physical and Brain Development Modules; Play and Stimulation Modules.

  1. Parent Involvement in Community Advocacy

 Growing Great Families: Unit 2, Sizing Up Your Strengths and Expanding Coping Skills and Support Systems; Becoming Your Own Personal Coach. Growing Great Kids: Birth to 12 months: Unit 4-6 Parents Corner; 13 to 24 Months: Unit 19 to 21 Parents Corner.

  1. Parent Involvement in Transition Activities

 Growing Great Kids Birth to 3 Parents Corner module

  1. Parent Involvement in Home Visits

 Growing Great Kids Prenatal to 36 months is a home based curriculum to be used with the family in the family’s home. The curriculum provides strength-based solution-focused conversation as a basis for the discussion of needs and interests related to the child’s optimal development including connecting with a medical home (Growing Great Kids; Unit 0 to 3 Basic care), early intervention (Growing Great Kids modules on Physical and Brain Development), and supporting parents as they adjust to the demands of life with a newborn child (Growing Great Kids Unit 0 to 3 Attachment, Bonding and Caring for Your New Family) . Home visitors trained to use GGK learn how to motivate parents to do the GGK developmental activities with their children rather than relying on the Home Visitor to provide developmental stimulation during home visits. Parents are provided with a handbook for doing age appropriate developmental activities with their children.

Head Start
Performance Standard

Growing Great Kids
Compliance

1304.21

Education and Early Childhood Development

(a)(1)(i) Be developmentally and linguistically appropriate, recognizing that children have individual rates of development as well as individual interests, temperaments, languages, cultural backgrounds, and learning styles

 Growing Great Kids Prenatal – 36 Months Curriculum provides a comprehensive curriculum by providing various materials, activities, and experiences that support a large range of experiences, maturation rates, styles of learning, needs, cultures, and interests. The curriculum respects diversity among children by \being responsive to children’s cues and being especially sensitive to the development of growing infants and toddlers, and has design activities reflective of the observed stages and interests of children.

(a)(1)(ii) Be inclusive of children with disabilities, consistent with their individualized Family Service Plan.

Growing Great Kids Prenatal – 36 Months Curriculum can be used emergently to fit the child’s development needs. Activities can be modified to be inclusive of children with disabilities.

(a)(1)(iii) Provide an environment of acceptance that supports and respects gender, culture, language, ethnicity and family composition.

 The language in the curriculum is family centered and inclusive of family structures and cultural composition. The cover and artwork are culturally diverse and engaging for men and women alike. Starting prenatally, families are encouraged to look at their culture and traditions and to explore how they can strengthen their parenting practices and family unit. Growing Great Families Unit 1 Cultural Values, Traditions and Family Practices module, Growing Great Kids 0-3 Parents Corner Module,

(a)(1)(iv) Provide a balanced daily program of child-initiated and adult-directed activities, including individual and small group activities.

Growing Great Kids Cues and Communication, Social and Emotional Development, Physical and Brain Development, Play and Stimulation modules Birth to 36 months.

(a)(1)(v) Allow and enable children to independently use toilet facilities when it is developmentally appropriate and when efforts to encourage toilet training are supported by the parents.

 Growing Great Kids Basic Care Module 19-21 months.

(a)(2)(i) Parents must be integrally involved in the development of the program’s curriculum and approach to child development and education.

 This curriculum is built upon the principal of adult learning thereby assisting parents to increase their knowledge about child development and education, therefore enhancing the parent’s ability to serve as their children’s primary teacher. The curriculum can be used emergently so that the parent partners with the Home Visitor in implementing the curriculum to fit the child’s strengths, interests, learning styles, routines, daily experiences, and needs.

(a)(2(ii) Provide opportunities to increase their child observation skills and to share assessments with staff that will help plan the learning experiences

 The curriculum is written as a strength-based conversation in which the parents are encouraged to share their goals, discuss the child’s behavior, and development. Parents are encouraged to keep two family books one with family goals and another with the child’s goals and accomplishments.

(a)(2)(iii) Encourage participation in home visits to discuss their child’s development and education.

 This curriculum is written to be used in a home visiting program.

Encouraging development which enhances each child’s strengths by:

(a)(3)(i)(A) Building Trust

 Growing Great Kids, Social and Emotional Development; Cues and communication modules. Character Builders Daily Do, E-Parenting Daily Do.

(a)(3)(i)(B) Fostering independence

 Growing Great Kids modules: Basic Care, Social and Emotional Development; Cues and Communication; Physical and Brain Development; Play and Stimulation. Character Builders Daily Do, Play By Play Daily Do, Body Builder Daily Do, E-Parenting Daily Do, Brain Builders Daily Do, 4 Steps to Success Daily Do.

(a)(3)(i)(C) Encouraging self-control by setting clear, consistent limits, and having realistic expectations

 Growing Great Kids modules: Basic Care, Social and Emotional Development; Physical and Brain Development; Play and Stimulation. E-Parenting Daily Do and Character Builders Daily Do.

(a)(3)(i)(D) Encouraging respect for the feelings and rights of others.

 E-Parenting Daily Do

(a)(3)(i)(E) Supporting and respecting the home language, culture, and family composition of each child in ways that support the child’s health and well-being.

 Growing Great Families modules; Learning About family Values and Strengths; Becoming a Stronger Family; Cultural Values, Traditions and Family Practices

(a)(3)(ii) Planning for routines and transitions so that they occure in a timely, predictable and unrushed manner according to the child’s needs.

 Growing Great Kids modules: Basic Care; Social and Emotional Development; Cures and Communication; Play and Stimulation. E-Parenting Daily Do, Character Builders Daily Do, Body Builders Daily Do.

(a)(4)(i) Support lanugage skills by using various learning strategies including experimentation, inuiry, observation, play and exploration.

 Growing Great Kids modules: Cues and Communication; Physical and Brain development; Play and Stimulation. Play By Play Daily Do, Brain Builders Daily Do.

(a)(4)(ii) Support language skills by ensuring opportunities for creative self-expression through activities such as art, music, movement, and dialogue.

 Growing Great Kids modules includes activities that encourage children to express themselves creatively. Many activities contain music, dance, and art and are rich in language experience. Play by Play Daily Do.

(a)(4)(iii) support language skills by promoting interaction and language used among children and between children and adults.

 Growing Great Kids modules: Cues and Communication. Play by Play Daily Do.

 

(a)(4)(iv) Supporting emerging literacy and numeracy development through materials and activities according to the developmental level of each child.

 Growing Great Kids modules: Cues and Communication; Physical and Brain Development. Play by Play daily do, Brain Builders Daily Do, 4 Steps to Success Daily Do.

 

(a)(6) In home-based steeings, agencies must encourage parents to appreciate the importance of physical development, provide opportunities for children outdoor and indoor active play, and guide children in the safe use of equipment and materials.

 Growing Great Kids modules: Play and Stimulation; Physical and Brain Development. Body Builders Daily Do, Brain Builders Daily Do.

 

(b)(1) Child Development and Education Approach for Infants and Toddlers

 Growing Great Kids Curriculum is a written plan that includes goal setting, The experiences to which families and children will achieve goals, the roles of staff and parents in achieving these goals, and materials that are needed to support implementation of the curriculum. The curriculum is based on sound child development principles about how children grow and learn. (GERMS)

(b)(1)(i) Development of Secure Relationships and Understanding the child’s family Culture

 Growing Great Kids: Unit 0-3 Attachment, Bonding, and Caring for Your New Family; Basic Care; Growing Great Families: Unit 1 Cultural Values, Traditions and Family Practices module

 

(b)(1)(ii) Trust and Emotional Security

Growing Great Kids modules: Basic Care Modules and Social and Emotional Development. Character Builders Daily Do.

 

(b)(1)(iii) Opportunities to explore a variety of sensory and motor experiences.

Growing Great Kids modules: Physical and Brain Development Modules and Play and Stimulation. Brain Builders Daily Do.

 

(b)(2)(i) Environment that encourages development of self-awareness, autonomy, and self-expression

 Growing Great Kids modules: Social and Emotional Modules, Physical and Braid Development Modules and Play and Stimulation Module.

(b)(2)(ii) Support emerging communication skills

 Growing Great Kids module: Cues and Communication Module. Play by Play Daily Do

 

(b)(3)(i) Promote physical development

 Growing Great Kids modules: Physical and Brain Development and Play and Stimulation. Body Builders Daily Do.

(b)(3)(ii) Promote fine motor development

 Growing Great Kids module: Physical and Brain Development. 4 Steps to Success Daily Do.

(c)(1) Implement a curriculum

 Growing Great Kids Curriculum is comprehensive, and is based upon sound child development principles, well-grounded in its approach and methods, specific in goals and objectives for children’s development and learning that are achievable, but also challenging, inclusive of developmentally appropriate indoor and outdoor activities, supportive of spontaneous learning opportunities, responsive to a system for observing and documenting children’s progress in all areas of development, intellectually engaging and personally meaningful to families and children, inclusive of children with disabilities, and sensitive to cultural beliefs, and the language of the families served.

 

(c)(1)(i) Supports individual pattern of development and learning

Staff, together with parents, discusses what they observe about the child’s progress, interests, development, learning style, attention span, temperament, and problem-solving abilities to individualize the Growing Great Kids Curriculum. The curriculum was designed to be inclusive as well as emergent.

(c)(1)(ii) Development of cognitive skills

 Growing Great Kids Physical and Brain Development Modules and Play and Stimulation Modules. Brain Builders Daily Do.

 

(c)(1)(iii) Integrates all educational aspects of the health, nutrition, and mental health services

Growing Great Kids Basic Care Modules and Social and Emotional Development Modules. Body Builders and E-Parenting Daily Do

(c)(1)(iv) Children develop emotional security and facility in social relationships

 Growing Great Kids Social and Emotional Development Modules
E-Parenting daily do and Character Builders Daily Do

(c)(1)(v) Enhance child’s understanding of self as an individual and as a member of a group

 Growing Great Kids Social and Emotional Development Modules
E-Parenting daily do and Character Builders Daily Do

(c)(1)(vi) Provides experiences both indoors and outdoors

 Growing Great Kids Physical and Brain Development Modules and Play and Stimulation Modules. Brain Builders daily do, 4 Steps to Success daily do and Body Builders Daily Do.

(c)(1)(vii) Use a variety of strategies to promote and support children’s learning and developmental progress based on the observations and ongoing assessment of the child

 Growing Great Kids Social and Emotional Development Modules, Physical and Brain Development Modules and Play and Stimulation Modules. Modules can be used emergently based on the child’s developmental progress.

Head Start
Performance Standard

Growing Great Kids
Compliance

1304.22

Child Health and Safety

(a)-(f)Health emergency procedures

 Growing Great Kids Basic Care Modules: Provides parents with the opportunity to learn how to develop plans of action for dealing with emergencies in the home. Plans are developed and enhanced every 3 months in response to the child’s developmental stage. Body Builders Daily Do

1304.23

Child Nutrition

(a)-(e) Identification of nutritional needs

 Growing Great Kids Basic Care Modules: These modules provide opportunities for home visitors to discuss nutritional needs and support parents with information on typical growth patterns and nutrition-related situations. Nutritional topics include: Schedule of feeding, breast milk or formula, introduction of new foods and solid foods, the child’s elimination patterns, feeding preferences and problems, safe food preparation and handling, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, baby-bottle tooth decay, lead poisoning, variety of food groups and cultural and ethnic preferences.

Head Start
Performance Standard

Growing Great Kids
Compliance

1304.20

Child Health and Developmental Services

(a)(1)(i) Ongoing source of continuous, accessible health care

Growing Great Kids Module: Basic Care modules provide ongoing conversations in regards to the individual needs of families attaining health care services.

(a)(1)(ii) (A) Must assist parents in making the necessary arrangements to bring the child up-to date on age appropriate schedule of well child care visits.

 Growing Great Kids Module: Basic Care modules Birth to 36 months.

(b)(1)Age appropriate screening procedures to identify concerns regarding a child’s developmental, sensory, behavioral, motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional skills. Screening procedures must be sensitive to the child’s cultural background.

Growing Great Kids Modules: Social and Emotional Birth to 36 months; Physical and Brain Birth to 36 months. These modules consist of developmental milestones that should be viewed flexibly. These modules use multiple sources including, staff observations, parent observations, developmental history and family functioning, including relationships between the child and parents. Growing Great Kids recommends a formal assessment tool be used as well to identify concerns.

(b)(2) Must obtain direct guidance from a mental health or child development professional on how to use findings to address identified needs.

Growing Great Kids and Growing Great Families; When using this curriculum with families who have children who are challenged by physical, emotional or cognitive impairments, the home visitor is encouraged to: Modify expectations, consult with parents and therapists regarding which GGK activities will best support development, explore with parents and encourage them to select which GGK modules subsections and activities will support development, do variations of GGK activities that a child excels at to build child and parental confidence, pride and joy.

(c)(1) Ongoing communication with the parents of children with identified health needs to facilitate the implementation of the follow-up plan.

(c)(2) Assistance to the parents, as needed, to enable them to learn how to obtain any prescribed medications, aids, or equipment for medical and dental conditions.

Growing Great Kids and Growing Great Families uses strength based conversation with parents to support ongoing communication to address difficulties and concerns with parents regarding their child’s health care needs and refining goals.

(c)(3) Dental follow-up and treatment

Growing Great Kids Basic Care Modules Birth to 36 months. Basic care modules review the importance of dental health and hygiene at each stage of the child’s development.

(d) Identify any new or recurring medical, dental or developmental concerns so that they may quickly make appropriate referrals.

 Growing Great Kids Physical and Brain Development and Social and Emotional Development modules. These modules regularly provide information on developmental milestones, and ask parents for their observation concerning their child’s development. GGK also recommends that Home Visitors keep an ongoing observation document (Home Visit Record) on the child’s development as well.

(e)(1) Consult with parents immediately when child health or developmental problems are suspected or identified.

 Growing Great Kids Basic Care and Social and Emotional Development modules. Growing Great Kids uses strength based solution focused conversation to discuss concerns with parents.

(e)(2) Familiarize parents with the use of and rationale for all health and developmental procedures administered through the program or by contract or agreement, and obtain advance parent authorization for such procedures. Ensure that the results of diagnostic and treatment procedures and ongoing care are shared with and understood by the parents.

 Treatment procedures and ongoing care are shared with parents using strength-based, solution focused conversations. These conversations ensure that the parents understand the procedures as well as the results. Growing Great Families Cultural Values, Traditions and Family Practices; Growing Goals and Supporting Parents Working Towards Goals modules may also be used.

(e)(3) Talk with parents about how to familiarize their children in a developmentally appropriate way and in advance about all of the procedures they will receive while enrolled in the program.

 E- Parenting Daily Do strategy is used to help the child express their emotions and help the parent understand how the child is feeling.

(e)(4)To enroll and participate in a system of ongoing family health care and encourage parents to be active partners in their children’s health care process.

 Growing Great Kids Basic Care modules; Growing Great Families Parental Expectation module. Body Builders Daily Do.

(f)(1) Must use the information from the screenings for developmental, sensory, and behavioral concerns, the ongoing observations, medical and dental evaluations and treatments, and insights from the child’s parents to help staff and parents determine how the program can best respond to each child’s individual characteristics, strengths and needs.

 Growing Great Families modules: Parental Expectations: Who Your Child Becomes; Growing Goals; Supporting Parents Working Towards Goals. The strength-based approach of the Growing Great Kids Curriculum supports families in reaching goals families have identified.

(f)(2) (i) Services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families support the attainment of the expected outcomes contained in the individualized Family Service Plan for children identified under the infants and toddlers with disabilities program (Part C) of the individuals with Disabilities Education Act, as implemented by their State or Tribal government

 Growing Great Families modules: Parental Expectations; Growing Goals; Supporting Parents Working Towards Goals. Growing Great Kids strength-based approach focuses on what parents want for their children and supports families in reaching goals the families have identified.

1304.20(f)(2)(ii) Infants and toddlers suspected of having a disability are promptly referred to the local early intervention agency designated by the State Pare C plan to coordinate any needed evaluations, determined eligibility for Part C services, and coordinate the development of an IFSP for children determined to be eligible under the guidelines of that State’s program. Must support parent participation in the evaluation and IFSP development process for infants and toddlers enrolled in their program.

 Through strategies such as problem talk, normalizing, feel felt found, and wondering curiosity parents are talked through the referral process. Growing Great Families module Parental Expectations could also be referred to.

(f)(2)(iii) They participate in and support efforts for a smooth and effective transition for children who, at age three, will need to be considered for services for preschool age children with disabilities.

 Growing Great Families Growing Goals module and strategies such as normalizing, problem talk, feel felt found and wondering curiosity will support the parents efforts in a smooth transition for their children.

 

 

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