§ 309.3 - What activities may the Secretary fund?

The Secretary may provide financial assistance in the form of a contract grant or cooperative agreement under this part to support the following activities:

(a) Experimental projects. These projects support the design of investigative models that compare alternative and innovative practices related to early intervention, preschool, and early education services for children with disabilities and their families.

(b) Demonstration projects. These projects assist in developing and implementing preschool and early intervention program practices that establish specific strategics and products worthy of dissemination and replication.

(c) Outreach projects. These projects support the replication of established practices to assist other agencies and organizations in expanding and improving services to children with disabilities and their families.

(d) Research institutes. These institutes are designed to carry on sustained research to generate and disseminate new information on preschool and early intervention programs.

(e) Research projects. These projects are designed to identify and meet the full range of special needs of children covered under this part.

(f) Training projects. These projects support the training of personnel for programs specifically designed for children with disabilities, including programs to integrate children with disabilities into regular preschool programs.

(g) Technical assistance development system. This system assists entities operating experimental, demonstration, and outreach programs and assists State agencies to expand and improve services to children with disabilities.

(h) Synthesis projects. These projects synthesize the knowledge developed under this part and organize, integrate, and present the knowledge so it can be incorporated and imparted to parents, professionals, and others providing or preparing to provide preschool or early intervention services and to persons designing preschool or early intervention programs.

(i) Statewide data systems projects. These projects establish an inter-agency, multi-disciplinary, and coordinated statewide system for the identification, tracking, and referral to appropriate services of all categories of children who are biologically or environmentally at risk of having developmental delays.