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2016 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 2. CONGENITAL DISABILITIES PROGRAM AND EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES
Subchapter II Infants And Toddlers Early Intervention Program
§ 215. Individualized family service plan.

Universal Citation:
16 DE Code § 215 (2016)
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The Department's system shall ensure that eligible children and their families receive the following in a timely manner:

(1) A multi-disciplinary assessment of the unique strengths and needs of each eligible child and identification of services appropriate to meet such needs;

(2) A family-directed assessment of the resources, priorities and concerns of the family and the identification of the supports and services necessary to enhance the family's capacity to meet the developmental needs of the eligible child; and

(3) A written individualized family service plan, whose format shall be specifically prescribed by regulation, developed and approved as follows:

a. The plan shall be prepared by a multi-disciplinary team which includes the child's parents;

b. The contents of the individualized family service plan shall be fully explained to the parents and informed written consent obtained prior to the provision of services described in the plan; and

c. If parental consent to a particular service is withheld, then the early intervention services to which consent is obtained shall be provided.

71 Del. Laws, c. 286, § 4.;

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