Identifying and helping struggling students :
Step 1: Awareness/Observation/Identification
Step 2: Pre-referral
Is the issue recurring or new?
Is the issue constant?
Is the issue appropriate for children of this age?
Teacher should maintain the student's work and assessment data
Response to Intervention (RTI)
Three tiers of intervention
1) Utilize high-quality general education
2) Targeted group instruction
3) Intensive, individualized interventions
Step 3: Referral for Special Education
Referrals can be initiated by school personnel or the children's parents
The school must obtain consent form the parents to begin the evaluation phase
Step 4: Special Education Evaluation
A variety of experts evaluate the students
They include:
Educational Diagnosticians
Special Educators
General Educators
Parents
Related Service Providers
Medical Doctors
Step 5: IEP Meeting and Implementaion
Students receive a battery analyzing:
Intelligence
Achievement
Behavior
School and parents set goals and duration of the IEP
Set up a plan to achieve these goals
Step 6: Reevaluation
IEP team will continue to meet to assess progress
Each year, IEP team will meet to evaluate implementation and develop the next year's IEP
The Special Education Referral Process. (n.d.). retrieved from http://www.projectidealonline.org/v/special-education-referral-process/