- Child Outcomes Summary (COS) Process Online Module
- Session 1: So What's This All About?
- Session 2: Overview of the COS Process
- Session 3: Completing the COS Process
- Session 4: The 7-Point Scale
- Session 5: Determining a Rating
- Session 6: Good Teaming, Good Decisions
- Session 7: Documenting the COS Rating
- Session 8: The Exit COS Rating
- Conclusion
- Resources Referenced in Module
Set-Up
"Teaming and collaboration practices are those that promote and sustain collaborative adult partnerships, relationships, and ongoing interactions to ensure that programs and services achieve desired child and family outcomes and goals."
-Division for Early Childhood's Recommended Practices, 2014, p. 14
There are recommended practices for the field of early intervention and early childhood special education around teaming. Take a moment to review the DEC Recommended Practices on Teaming and Collaboration (see p.14). Start to think about how you can apply them to the COS process.