Potential Strategies Designed to Improve Educationally Related Service Using VISTA

• Team members share a single set of goals that are individual priorities for the student and are "discipline-free".
• Together team members consider their function and the interrelationships among their disciplines by actively exploring potential gaps, overlaps and contradictions.
• Teams include the family members as equal partners in consensus decision-making.
• Suggested services are determined reciprocally by asking both the sender and proposed receiver of service.
• Educational relevance and necessity is established by referencing potential services to the identified educational program and a standard that services should be "only as special as necessary."
• Decisions about service frequency, mode of provision (e.g., consult), and location are made by referencing services to functions served.
• Services are implemented and their impact evaluated continually.