Abstract
Federal monitoring of the States' Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C programs to determine compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements should reflect the interests and concerns of the stakeholders of early intervention programs for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. The primary purpose of this project is to determine if the interests and concerns identified through the public comments on proposed Part C regulations, are in general accord with the current monitoring priorities set by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). The data from the proposed Part C public comments, submitted to Regulations.gov between May 9, 2007 and July 23, 2007, were reviewed to determine the interests of stakeholders. Taking into consideration that OSEP's monitoring tools have not yet been modified for the final 2004 Part C regulations (for which the stakeholder' s input was submitted), this author has determined that the interests of the stakeholders are close to being in general accord with the current monitoring priorities set by OSEP.