---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 303.1"
title: "34"
number: "303.1"
heading: "Purpose of the early intervention program for infants and toddlers with disabilities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/303.1"
---

# §303.1. Purpose of the early intervention program for infants and toddlers with disabilities.


The purpose of this part is to provide financial assistance to States to—

- (a) Develop and implement a statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency system that provides early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families;
- (b) Facilitate the coordination of payment for early intervention services from Federal, State, local, and private sources (including public and private insurance coverage);
- (c) Enhance State capacity to provide quality early intervention services and expand and improve existing early intervention services being provided to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families;
- (d) Enhance the capacity of State and local agencies and service providers to identify, evaluate, and meet the needs of all children, including historically underrepresented populations, particularly minority, low-income, inner-city, and rural children, and infants and toddlers in foster care; and
- (e) Encourage States to expand opportunities for children under three years of age who would be at risk of having substantial developmental delay if they did not receive early intervention services.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1431 through 1444, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 60244, Sept. 28, 2011, unless otherwise noted.