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Services
For Children With Special Needs
The purpose of IHSD’s Disabilities Services is to
ensure that children with disabilities and mental health needs receive all
of the services to which they are entitled. Disabilities Coordinators and
Family Service Specialists work collaboratively to accomplish the following
goals and objectives for service:
- Recruiting
and enrolling children with disabilities, particularly those with more
intensive special needs.
- Integrating
children with disabilities into regular early care and education
settings with other children.
- Providing
screening and/or in-depth evaluation in the areas of speech, motor
development, health, and social-emotional development.
- Assisting
parents in learning about and accepting their child’s special needs.
- Participating
in IEP and IFSP meetings and providing necessary services according to
IEP/IFSP guidelines.
- Providing
referrals for appropriate special education or therapeutic programs.
- Providing
counseling to parents and children by Mental Health Consultants and
information and referrals about other available mental health
services.
- Establishing
collaborative efforts between San Mateo County Head Start/Early Head
Start and other agencies serving children with disabilities in order
to identify and facilitate a continuity of services necessary to meet
children’s developmental needs.
- Promoting
and participating in inter-agency coordination to ensure the delivery
of comprehensive services for every San Mateo County Head Start/Early
Head Start child with a disability and their families.
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