Ch. 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.