Section 8-8 - Natural Environment (a) Regional Part C Program Providers must ensure early intervention services are provided in natural environments. - (i) Natural environments include settings where typically developing infants and toddlers participate, including their home, child care settings, and other community or public settings;
- (ii) The infant or toddler's IFSP must include a statement of the natural environment in which early intervention services will be provided.
- (iii) Services may only be provided outside of the natural environment, such as a clinician's office, if:
- (A) The parent(s) and the Individual Family Service Plan team determine that early intervention outcomes cannot be achieved satisfactorily in a natural environment; and
- (B) For each early intervention service that cannot be delivered in a natural environment, the IFSP contains written justification, and a plan and timeline of moving services back to a natural environment.