IFSP - The
team found Alicia to have a 50% delay in both her expressive language skills
and overall self-help skills. She babbles during interactions and while she
plays. She points to things she wants and makes sounds. Her mom thinks that
"da" means drink and "ma" means mom. Alicia is pretty patient with people while
they attempt to figure out what it is she wants. Her thinking, social and large
motor skills appear to be within normal limits. The team noted that Alicia sits
for only brief periods of time, preferring to be on the move. The team had some
concerns about the way she uses her hands and her sensory processing in general.
Daily routines are difficult because Alicia gets upset during dressing, doesn't
like to eat very much, screams and cries during bathing and doesn't like to
sit in her highchair or carseat. Her favorite foods are sweet. She fell out
of her crib several times, so now she sleeps on a mattress on the floor, but
wanders around the apartment at night. Her mom reports being at her wits end
because Alicia is constantly getting into dangerous things around the house,
is always on-the-go and cries and screams often. Alicia is now going to a family
day care part-time and to her grandma's house part-time while her mom works
full-time during the day.
Generate outcomes
- consider why each outcome is important to the family and how you
will know you are successful.
Identify strategies and activities to help make the outcome happen--consider
how the activities fit into the family's life
Consider resources, services and supports - who will carry out these
strategies/activities and where and when will they occur?
Created by Lori Brandt for the workshop, "The IFSP Process and Writing Functional
Outcomes, Wisconsin Personnel Development Project, 1/31/01 (funded by the Dept.
of Health and Family Services, Birth to 3 Program)