§ 309.30 - What conditions must be met by recipients of experimental, demonstration, and outreach projects?

(a) Experimental, demonstration, and outreach projects must include services and activities that are designed to—

(1) Facilitate the intellectual, emotional, physical, mental, social, speech or other communication mode, language development, and self-help skills of children with disabilities;

(2) Provide family education and include a parent or their representative, as well as encourage the participation of parents of children with disabilities, in the development and operation of projects under this section;

(3) Acquaint the community in which the project is located with the special needs and potentialities of children with disabilities;

(4) Offer training about exemplary models and practices, including interdisciplinary models and practices, to State and local personnel who provide services to children with disabilities, and to the parents of these children;

(5) Support the adoption of exemplary models and practices in States and local communities, including the involvement of adult role models with disabilities at all levels of the program;

(6) Facilitate and improve the early identification of infants and toddlers with disabilities or those infants and toddlers at risk of having developmental disabilities;

(7) Facilitate the transition of infants with disabilities or infants at risk of having developmental delays, from medical care to early intervention services, and the transition from early intervention services to preschool special education or regular education services (especially where the lead agency for early intervention services under part H of the Act is not the State educational agency);

(8) Promote the use of assistive technology devices and assistive technology services, if appropriate, to enhance the development of infants and toddlers with disabilities;

(9) Increase the understanding of, and address, the early intervention and preschool needs of children exposed prenatally to maternal substance abuse;

(10) Facilitate and improve outreach to low-income, minority, rural, and other underserved populations eligible for assistance under parts B and H of the Act; and

(11) Support statewide projects, in conjunction with a State's application under part H of the Act and a State's plan under part B or the Act, to change the delivery of early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities, and to change the delivery of special education and related services to preschool children with disabilities, from segregated to integrated environments.

(b) Experimental, demonstration, and outreach projects must be coordinated with State and local educational agencies, and appropriate public and private health and social service agencies, in order to—

(1) Inform those agencies of the nature and purposes of the assisted project's activities or services; and

(2) Provide opportunities for the project staff to coordinate their activities with staff of other agencies.