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Approximately 2% of children from birth through 2 years of age were identified as having disabilities in 2000. To provide effective intervention services to each child is important. Children with disabilities from birth to 3 years of age who receive early intervention services have an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP). In some community early intervention programs, IFSP data are collected and stored in paper-based format, making it difficult to retrieve information in an efficient manner. Information technology strategies could address these problems, thus enhancing the efficiency of the information management. This paper discusses a user requirement analysis, design and development of a Tablet-PC computer application for collecting IFSP data for young children in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An early prototype for the Tablet-PC computer application for the IFSP was successfully developed and a preliminarily evaluation was conducted at two early intervention programs.
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Funding for various components of the project described here was provided through the Helen Bader Foundation (Grant # 8836) and the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program (2004I-0086).
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Wu, M., Rhyner, P.M., Thao, C. et al. A Tablet-PC Application for the Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP). J Med Syst 31, 537–541 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-007-9095-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-007-9095-7