IDA-2 News
IDA2 Featured on NPR
The IDA-2 co-author Susan Vater led the MLDA design and development and the IDA-2 is the featured developmental assessment process and measure used in the MLDA. IDA-2 is also used in a range of agencies and services including B-3 Early Intervention/ Part C in many states, Early Head Start, home visiting programs, primary health care centers...
Too Small To Fail
To be clear, what’s needed is not just education but also help for families beginning in pregnancy, to reduce the risk that children will be born with addictions and to increase the prospect that they will be raised with lots of play and conversation. (By age 4, a child of professionals has heard 30 million more words than a child on welfare.)
IDA at the Help Me Grow National Forum in Greenville, South Carolina
States with Help Me Grow networks are considering implementation of MLDA (including the IDA) as a key component of child and family services. States already implementing MLDA are Washington, Florida, Connecticut...
OSEP and Early Head Start Child Outcomes
We welcome the opportunities to talk with leaders and staff about the required Outcomes reporting in Part C/IDEA and Early Head Start and remind IDA users that the IDA Meets all federal requirements...