A Tablet-PC application for the individual family service plan (IFSP).
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.
Wu
Min
M
Department of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. wu@uwm.edu
Rhyner
Paula M
PM
Thao
Cheng
C
Kraniak
Liz
L
Cronk
Christine
C
Cruise
Katie
K
D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003625:Data Collection / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D019451:Information Management; D008838:Microcomputers; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014922:Wisconsin