The Vermont State Performance Plan for Part C (known as the Family, Infant and Toddler Program) of the Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (IDE IA)of 2004 required the US Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to establish monitoring priorities in order to assure that states are in compliance with IDE IA and are providing Early Intervention Services that demonstrate progress in child and family outcomes. OSEP developed 14 monitoring priorities and indicators that they will use to monitor states. Vermont submitted its plan for approval on 12/1/2005. After a conversatioin with OSEP and some minor changes in Child Find targets (the narrative was dropped and numbers entered instead), Vermont sent in revisions to the State Performance Plan for monitoring priorities 5 and 6.

Once the SPP is officially approved (meaning Vermont has recieved a letter from OSEP stating it has approved the plan), the SPP will guide the work of Vermont FITP for the next six years and there will be Annual Performance Reports that describe the progress made each year in relationship to the approved plan. For more information you may call 241 3602 and you will be able to connect with a staff person, either Kathy Boulanger or Helen Keith who will assist you.

A PDF of the revised SPP is now available for download.