Glossary
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): The ADA is a federal civil rights law that entitles people with disabilities to equal rights in employment, state and local public services and public accommodations.
Child Care Division (CCD): The Child Care Division of the Oregon Employment Department supports families by promoting a statewide child care system that promotes safe, high quality, affordable, and accessible child care.
Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R): Oregon's 17 CCR&Rs helps parents to locate and evaluate child care providers.
Collaborative Consultant Model: An EI/CSE Specialist provides services to children in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education and their families in a variety of natural environments and in collaboration with individuals who are the primary educators of children such as parents, preschool teachers, Head Start staff, social workers and medical personnel.
Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP): DAP were published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and are meant to function as guidelines for early childhood care and education providers. They are based on information from research and child development theory and provide information about providing quality services to young children. The primary purpose of these guidelines is to provide guidance to program personnel serving young children.
Division for Early Childhood (DEC): The Division for Early Childhood is a division of the Council of Exceptional Children (CEC) which promotes policies and advances evidence-based practices that support families and enhance the optimal development of young children who have or are at risk for developmental delays and disabilities.
Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE): Free, specially designed instruction and services to meet the unique needs of preschool children with disabilities, three years of age until the age of eligibility for public school.
Early Intervention (EI): Services for infants and toddlers with disabilities from birth until three years of age, including children who are homeless and their families. These services are designed to meet the child's development as identified by the IFSP team, which includes the parents.
Employment Related Day Care (ERDC): A program of the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS). The program provides child care subsidies to low income working families and to families involved in DHS self-sufficiency programs.
Inclusion: Inclusion, as a value, supports the right of all children, regardless of abilities, to participate actively in natural settings within their communities. Natural settings are those in which the child would spend time had he or she not had a disability. Natural settings include (but are not limited to) home, play groups, public places, child care, community preschool, and Head Start.
The Inclusive Child Care Program (ICCP): The ICCP serves eligible families of children who require extra accommodations or supports to be in child care. The program offers a "supplemental" child care subsidy to help cover costs related to children's disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, or special health care needs. The subsidy is added to the parent's payment to the child care provider. The supplemental subsidy must be used while parents are employed or participating in education or training programs. The program also offers individualized planning and service coordination to support inclusive child care placements. ICCP is a program of the Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP): A written plan of early childhood special education, related services, and early intervention services, and other services developed with criteria. Through the IFSP process, family members and service providers work as a team to plan, implement, and evaluate services tailored to the family's unique concerns, priorities, and resources.
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE): To the maximum extent appropriate to the needs of the child services are provided in settings in which children without disabilities participate, including nonacademic services and activities.
Local Interagency Coordinating Council (LICC): The LICC is the county version of the SICC (State Interagency Coordinating Council) and provides advice and assistance on the identification of service needs, coordination of services with other agency services, procedures for resolving local disputes and development of local interagency agreements. Many of these local councils have combined with the county Early Childhood Teams which are subgroups to the county commissions for children and families.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC): The NAEYC is a national organization that is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.
Natural Environments: Settings that are natural or normal for the child's same age peers who have no disabilities.
Oregon Head Start Pre Kindergarten Program (OHS PreK): Oregon Head Start Prekindergarten is a comprehensive child development program for three and four year old children serving Oregon's lowest income children and their families.
Placement: The placement of a child with a disability is determined by the IFSP team, which consists of the parents and other persons who are knowledgeable about the child, the meaning of evaluation data, and the placement options. ECSE services are provided in the least restrictive environment, including home and community settings in which children without disabilities participate.
Related Services: Refers to services such as transportation, developmental, corrective, and other supportive services designed to enable a child with a disability to receive a free appropriate public education as described in the education program of the child.
State Interagency Coordinating Council (SICC): The SICC was established to ensure interagency coordination and to support the ongoing development of quality statewide services for young children and their families (by authority of IDEA and ORS 343.499).
Supplementary Aids and Services: Means aids, services, and other supports that are provided in regular education classes, other education-related settings, and in extracurricular and nonacademic settings, to enable children with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled children to the maximum extent appropriate.