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Texas Even Start Administrative Manual

June 2004, (Revised January 2008)

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Accommodations may be needed for assessment of the home environment for children with documented developmental delays. Developmental delays include conditions such as Down’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, speech and communication disorders or autism. The Disability-Adapted HOME (Developmental Delay) is not intended for use with children whose delays might be the result of lack of opportunity.

Texas LEARNS recommends that local programs use the Disability-Adapted HOME (Developmental Delay) only in instances where the developmental delay has been documented by an outside source. Outside sources include, but are not limited to, Early Childhood Intervention and medical doctors.

The Disability-Adapted HOME (Developmental Delay) builds upon the original HOME record forms. The publisher recommends that those administering the Disability-Adapted HOME (Developmental Delay) be totally familiar with administration procedures for the Infant Toddler HOME, the Early Childhood HOME and the Middle Childhood HOME.

The Disability-Adapted HOME (Developmental Delay) has been added to TESPIRS. Program administrators can now select the following from the drop down list in TESPIRS.

TESPIRS Drop-down list

HOME Inventory Infant Toddler	Disability-Adapted HOME IT Dev. Delay
HOME Inventory Early Childhood	Disability-Adapted HOME EC Dev. Delay
HOME Inventory Middle Childhood	Disability-Adapted HOME MC Dev. Delay

The publishers of the HOME have also created Disability-Adapted HOME for three other disability types. Those forms of the Disability-Adapted HOME have not been added to TESPIRS due to the low incidence of those disabilities combined with the cost of modifying software. This could be revisited based on need and availability of funds.

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