Being a disability services coordinator (DSC) is a big job. You work across many service areas and with many partners. Your work helps support an important goal: positive outcomes for children with disabilities and their families.

Part 4 of the guide shares extra tools to support your work, including:

• Planning tools
• Tracking sheets
• Glossary
• Resource links

In the Conclusion, you will:

• Find a summary of the important components that make up your program’s coordinated approach for disabilities services
• Explore tips to support you as you navigate your important role

In Appendix A: Building an Interagency Memorandum of Understanding, you will:

• Find a list of common sections typically found in an interagency memorandum of understanding (MOU)

In Appendix B: Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance (ERSEA) Worksheet and Action Plan, you will:

• Find a tool to help you evaluate how different policies support the ERSEA process for children with disabilities and their families
• Find a matrix to help you plan action steps to improve your program’s ERSEA process for children with disabilities and their families

In Appendix C: Tracking Sheets, you will:

• Find tracking sheets to help you keep track of dates and timelines for different processes that support disabilities services:
  • Screening
  • Referral to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) agency and evaluation process
  • Next steps for IDEA-eligible children
  • Ongoing meetings for IDEA-eligible children

In Appendix D: Screening, Referral, and Evaluation Tasks, you will:

• Find a list of tasks to help you manage and track each child’s progress in different processes:
  • Screening
  • Ongoing Assessment
  • Referral
  • Evaluation
  • Follow-up

In Appendix E: Types of Curriculum Modifications and Embedded Learning Opportunities, you will:

• Find descriptions of highly individualized teaching and support strategies, including:
  • Types of curriculum modifications
  • Key steps when planning and delivering embedded learning opportunities

In Appendix F: Planning Matrix for a Coordinated Approach, you will:

• Find a tool to help you plan and improve your program’s coordinated approach for disabilities services

In the Glossary, you will:

• Find definitions for common terms used in planning and providing disabilities services in Head Start programs