Child Count Data

The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) collects data from each state for an Annual Report to Congress.  This is often referred to as “December 1” data or “618” data since the legal authority for its collection is found in section 618 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.  These reports currently include:

• The number of all eligible children with IFSPs on December 1 by age groupings / gender (Table 1 A.1 & B.1)

                   2002             2003             2004           2005       2006     2007

• The cumulative number of children with IFSPs during a 12 month period (Table 1D)

                        2002             2003             2004            2005       2006    2007

• The types of settings in which children and families receive Birth to Three services and supports by age groupings (Table 2A)

                        2002             2003             2004             2005      2006     2007

• The types of settings in which children and families receive Birth to Three services and supports by race/ ethnicity (Table 2B)

                        2002             2003             2004             2005      2006      2007

• The number of children that exit Birth to Three grouped by the exit reason (Table 3)

                        2002             2003             2004             2005      2006-table 3-a
                                                                                                         2006-table 3-b

• The types of Birth to Three services and supports that children and families receive (Table 4)

                        2002             2003             2004

• The number of full-time equivalents for a variety of personnel delivering services. (Table 5)

                        2002             2003             2004

As part of the Office of Special Education Program’s (OSEP) focused monitoring of states, states are ranked according to some of this data.  For Part C, the two areas in which states were ranked include the percent of children served under the age of one and the percent of children who received services primarily in natural settings.