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Checking Data and Assessing Partner Readiness – Resources

• Early Hearing Detection, and Intervention Program (EHDI) and Early Intervention Partnership Resource Collection (ECTA Center, 2026)

  This collection of resources centered on newborn hearing screening and early intervention programs includes a data sharing agreement and template, a federal dear colleague letter, and a guide designed to help states build partnerships.

• Supporting State EHDI-EI Collaboration: Self-Assessment and Meeting Templates (ECTA Center, 2026)

  This guide presents ideas to help states as they build partnerships through a process that can be adapted to fit individual state context and needs by guiding discussions about topics important to the system of care for children.

• Data Linking Toolkit: Part C and Part B 619 Data Linking Partners (DaSy, 2022)

  This section of the DaSy Data Linking Toolkit section suggests potential data partners and provides examples of the questions that the data partners might be able to answer together.

• Data Linking Toolkit: Partnerships (DaSy, 2022)

  This section of the DaSy Data Linking Toolkit outlines the benefits and risks of data linking partnerships.

• What Is an Early Childhood Integrated Data System? (SLDS State Support Team, 2024)

  This brief describes the role of an Early Childhood Integrated Data System and the types of data it may contain.

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? Leveling Up Your Data Systems (DaSy, 2023)

  This DaSy Center blog post offers considerations for deciding whether to level up your data system connections through data linking and integration.

• Data Sharing, Linking and Integration: What is it and How do we Start? (DaSy, 2023)

  This presentation differentiates data sharing, linking, and integration, highlighting the features of each type of data communication in special education and early childhood programs.

• State of the States on Linking Data (DaSy, 2023)

  This interactive resource offers data from the 2023 “State of the States” survey regarding states’ capacity to examine Part C and Part B 619 data on the same child

• What’s the Difference Between Data Sharing, Data Linking and Data Integration? (DaSy, 2022)

  This DaSy Center blog explores three key data concepts: data sharing, data linking, and data integration.

• Five Considerations for Potential Data Linking Partners (DaSy, 2019)

  This DaSy Center blog explores how data linking partnerships can yield significant benefits, such as administrative efficiencies and access to additional data to answer policy questions and inform program improvement.

• Linking Early Childhood Data (DaSy, 2017)

  This infographic from DaSy’s 2017 Focus on Linking Part C and Part B 619 Data week offers an illustration of important steps for states to consider when linking data between Early Intervention (EI) and Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE).