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ICC Recommended Guidelines for Speech and Language Therapy Assistants (SLPAs) Roles & Responsibilities in Early Intervention
This document, developed by speech and language pathologists and early interventionists from around the State, provides information including SLPA qualifications, scope of duties and their role in providing early intervention services.

ICC Recommended Early Start Personnel Manual
The Early Start Personnel Manual (ESPM), recommended by the California State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention (ICC), describes the foundational principles, competencies and evidence-based practices needed to support effective service delivery. The manual also elaborates key roles of interdisciplinary team members, how to support seamless service delivery and how to matriculate through the Early Start personnel system.

Early Start Training Sponsorship Page
A one-page document that acknowledges DDS funding and sponsorship of a local training event. English (PDF)

Effective Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA) Reflects and Promotes the Following Core Messages
Early Start endorses the Core Messages as a guide for effective early childhood T&TA activities, in the belief that they promote positive outcomes for young children and their families. The core messages were developed by the Training and Technical Assistance Collaborators, an interagency partnership in California dedicated to delivering quality personnel development activities for children birth to five with disabilities and other special needs and their families.

Effective Practice in Providing Family Support
This is a training and technical assistance document on services and supports that are family centered for agencies serving young children and their families.The document includes a self assessment tool. It was updated from its original version entitled Family Support Guidelines for Effective Practice which was originally developed in 1994.

Service Coordinator's Handbook - Transition
This is an excerpt from the Service Coordinator's Handbook, Section 10 - Individualized Service Plan Process. It addresses transition requirements, procedural safeguards and documentation. California Department of Education also has a handbook on transition at the following link: www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/fp/documents/ectransitn.pdf.

Best Practices for Early Start Infants and Toddlers Who Are Deaf
This publication demonstrats the identification of hearing loss by six months of age, followed by appropriate intervention, is the most effective strategy for the normal development of language in deaf and hard of hearing children.

AB 2909 Study
AB 2909 is a study for Services for Infants & Toddlers Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing