Category Archives: Presentation

Expanding your SLDS to Include Special Populations

Conference: NCES STATS-DC Date: August 2023 Presenter: Ginger Elliott-Teague, Erik Friend, Kathi Gillaspy, Leah Piatt The presenters highlighted why states should incorporate data about special child populations into the SLDS and ECIDS, focusing on young children with disabilities, and discussed the benefits and challenges of developing more robust data linkages and integration. Expanding your SLDS […]

No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Resources to Reinforce Core COS Practices

Conference: DEC & ISEI Joint Conference 2022 Date: September 28, 2022 Presenters: Lauren Barton, Naomi Younggren, Henry Matthews, Stephanie Moore, Kellen Reid, Faith Scheibe, and Nicholas Ortiz This session explored the available Child Outcomes Summary (COS) professional development materials that can help teams focus on functionality, cover the breadth of the outcomes, age anchor skills, […]

Empowering Stakeholders to Make a Difference with Data

Conference: DEC & ISEI Joint Conference 2022 Date: September 28, 2022 Presenter: Betsy Davies-Mercier, Grace Kelley, Thomas McGhee This presentation addresses why effective use of data involves bringing people together to examine and reflect on data and create solutions together, and how to engage diverse stakeholders in understanding and using data. Empowering Stakeholders to Make […]

Stop the Drop! Part C Enrollment for Children Born LBW and Preterm

Conference: DEC & ISEI Joint Conference 2022 Date: September 28, 2022 Presenter: Patricia Blasco, Evelyn Shaw, and Kathryn Morrison This presentation described background information on children born at low birth weight and/or prematurely, state eligibility policies around low birth weight and prematurity, and the DEC position statement on these conditions. Attendees worked in small groups […]

Understanding IDEA Family Outcomes: FFY 2019 Data

Conference: OSEP Leadership Conference Date: July 2022 Presenter: Haidee Bernstein, Nicholas Ortiz, Tony Ruggiero In this virtual poster presentation from the 2022 OSEP Leadership Conference, DaSy and ECTA staff addressed how States are meeting the OSEP Federal requirements around Part C family outcomes by including information about the State approaches to collecting data, measuring response […]

Developing Data Sharing Arrangements between EHDI and Part C to Improve Early Identification and Services

Conference: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Conference Date: March 2022 Presenters: Haidee Bernstein, Karl White, Evelyn Shaw, Sharon Walsh The goal of this session was to help participants (1) Increase their understanding of the privacy requirements (e.g., under IDEA, FERPA and HIPAA) and important technical aspects needed to address data sharing, (2) Gain knowledge of data […]