News & Updates

There is an urgent need to support language rich environments for young deaf and hard of hearing children who are falling behind in language. The percentage of deaf children birth through five meeting age expectations decreased by 4 percentage points from fall to spring, a pattern indicative of falling farther behind on language benchmarks.

As part of child outcomes reporting, the DR Access Project annually calculates the percent of preschoolers exiting preschool special education functioning at age expectations in “Use of Appropriate Behaviors to Meet Needs”*.

Across the country we are seeing impacts on the social-emotional development of young children due to COVID. National experts explain that these impacts are the result of exacerbated adverse childhood experiences, limited opportunities for social interaction, and reduced enrollment in Pre-K and early intervention services.

A document explaining how the DRDP (2015) helps to assure that California has a coordinated system working toward the same successful developmental outcomes, benefiting teachers and service providers, program administrators, and families.

Follow the path of DRDP data from teachers’ assessments, to planning instruction and federal reporting with this graphic and summaries of the systems for producing reports.

The results of the DRDP assessment help us better understand children’s learning and development, plan instruction, and share information with families. In order to produce confident results, the DRDP must be used with a number of essential steps in place.