Special Education-Grants for Infants and Families

Objective

To provide grants to States to assist them to implement and maintain a Statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency system to make available early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.

Who Can Apply

• State

Eligible applicants are the following 57 entities: the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Bureau of Indian Education within the U.S. Department of the Interior and the following four outlying area jurisdictions: Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Who Benefits

• Individual/Family
• Disabled (e.g. Deaf, Blind, Physically Disabled)
• Mentally Disabled
• Preschool
• Infant (0-5)

The beneficiaries are infants and toddlers with disabilities aged birth through 2 and their families and at the State's option, children with disabilities ages three through five and their families.

Assistance Types

• Formula Grants

Program Contact

gregg.corr@ed.gov
(202) 245-7309