Category Archives: Special Collection

Linking to Facilitate Transition Notification

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With the focus this week on linking data between Part C and Part B 619, it is helpful to look at states that have already begun the linking process through innovative methods of sharing data for transition notification. In the 2016 DaSy Spotlight: Data Linkages Between Part C and Part B – Transition Notification publication, […]

State of the States on Linking Data

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This infographic from DaSy’s 2017 Focus on Linking Part C and Part B 619 Data week offers data from our 2015 state survey on which states are linking EI and ECSE data, what proportion of states use the same unique child ID for both EI and ECSE programs, and how EI and ECSE programs are […]

Linking Data Week Day Two: Critical Questions — Why Link?

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Today, our Linking Data resources focus on how linking can help you to answer important questions about early intervention and early childhood special education programs and services: Answer the Question! explores the types of questions that you will be able to address with linked data, and how the answers to those questions may support program […]

Answer the Question!

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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. – Jonas Salk Questions—ones that get at important topics that are meaningful to Early Intervention (EI) and Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) state agencies—are often at the heart of Part C and 619 coordinators’ and Part C and B […]

ED/HHS Joint Report on Early Childhood Integrated Data

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The January 2017 webinar hosted by the State Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program featured federal representatives discussing the key points from their new joint policy statement, “The Integration of Early Childhood Data: State Profiles and a Report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education.” In addition, the […]

The Integration of Early Childhood Data

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This 2016 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education includes profiles of eight states working on developing, enhancing, or using an Early Childhood Integrated Data System. The report is intended to help states refine their capacity to use existing administrative data from early childhood programs to […]

Data Integration Toolkit

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The CIID Data Integration Toolkit is designed to support state education agency (SEA) efforts to integrate Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) data with their statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDSs), and includes a sample road map articulating typical steps and tasks required for integration; a sequential process for integrating data; and specific activities and resources […]