Screening and Referrals. Contractors must conduct developmental screenings to identify children who may need further evaluation. Screening must include speech/language, social-emotional, physical/motor, and cognitive development. Screening tools must be responsive and sensitive to the cultural and linguistic needs of each child and family and administered only with parent consent. Contractors must document: Developmental screening of each child within 90 calendar days of the child’s first day of class. Referrals for further assessment, if needed, based on screening, observation, and/or parent concerns. Follow up with parents to ensure that referred children receive needed developmental services. If a child is identified as having special needs, contractors must work with the Local Education Agency (LEA) to develop an Individualized Education Program (IEP) that identifies and plans for needed services. E-11 Observation, Assessment, and Individualization Contractors must ensure teaching staff: Perform ongoing observations of individual children’s activities, interactions, behavior, language, learning, and development across the developmental domains. Maintain objective observation notes in Teaching Strategies GOLD® Online . Use Teaching Strategies GOLD® Online for their child assessment tool. Staff must enter and maintain accurate information in GOLD®. o Rate all objectives within the following areas of GOLD®: Social-Emotional, Physical, Language, Cognitive, Literacy and Mathematics three times each year, according to the schedule in the ECEAP Contract. o Complete the Home Language Survey on all ECEAP children, and assessing the child’s English language acquisition, if indicated, using GOLD® objectives 37-38. Use observation and assessment information to plan individualized curriculum and guidance.
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Samples: snohomishcountywa.gov, www.snohomishcountywa.gov, www.snohomishcountywa.gov
Screening and Referrals. Contractors must conduct developmental screenings to identify children who may need further evaluation. Screening must include speech/language, social-emotional, physical/motor, and cognitive development. Screening tools must be responsive and sensitive to the cultural and linguistic needs of each child and family and administered only with parent consent. Contractors must document: • Developmental screening of each child within 90 calendar days of the child’s first day of class. • Referrals for further assessment, if needed, based on screening, observation, and/or parent concerns. • Follow up with parents to ensure that referred children receive needed developmental services. If a child is identified as having special needs, contractors must work with the Local Education Agency (LEA) to develop an Individualized Education Program (IEP) that identifies and plans for needed services. E-11 Observation, Assessment, and Individualization Contractors must ensure teaching staff: • Perform ongoing observations of individual children’s activities, interactions, behavior, language, learning, and development across the developmental domains. • Maintain objective observation notes in Teaching Strategies GOLD® Online . • Use Teaching Strategies GOLD® Online for their child assessment tool. Staff must enter and maintain accurate information in GOLD®. o Rate all objectives within the following areas of GOLD®: Social-Emotional, Physical, Language, Cognitive, Literacy and Mathematics three times each year, according to the schedule in the ECEAP Contract. o Complete the Home Language Survey on all ECEAP children, and assessing the child’s English language acquisition, if indicated, using GOLD® objectives 37-38. • Use observation and assessment information to plan individualized curriculum and guidance.
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Samples: snohomishcountywa.gov, www.snohomishcountywa.gov, www.snohomishcountywa.gov