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The IDEA Part C (infants and toddlers program, 0-2 years) proposed regulations have now cleared the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and will be published in the Federal Register shortly. This is expected to occur in the next few weeks, with regional meetings to obtain comments from the public on the regulations taking place in June.
OMB is the office within the White House that reviews the regulations, makes sure that they are in compliance with other laws and regulations; are responsive to the community; are presented in a strict regulation writing format; and that they address elements of the law that are necessary. If anything is missing, OMB offers comments back to the U.S. Department of Education (ED). ED must satisfy OMB from a management and budgetary perspective before the regulations can be printed in the Federal Register as a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and eventually a notice of final regulations. The Federal Register is the federal government’s mechanism for announcing public activities. All federal agencies are required to publish their regulations, notice of public meetings, public hearings, changes in regulations, proposed changes in regulations, etc., in the Federal Register.
ASHA continues to monitor the status of the IDEA Part C NPRM and will keep its members informed through a variety of communication vehicles, including its IDEA Information Center Web site. For further information, please contact Catherine D. Clarke, ASHA‘s Director of Education and Regulatory Advocacy, via e-mail at cclarke@asha.org or by phone at 800-498-2071, ext. 4159.
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