SAT (Student Assistance Team)
Makeup
MINIMUM 3 Person team
Appropriate Professional Staff (usually a School Psychologist)
Referral source REQUIRED to be invited
Possible Other Team Members
Parents, SLP, Title 1 Teacher, Counselor, Social Worker, Nurse, OT, PT, Diagnostician, Referral Officer, Director of Attendance
Current Teachers
Differentiated Instruction recommendations
Student
Referral Personnel
Outside Agencies
Student Self-Referrals
Written Referral
Staff
Submitted no more than 10 days prior to SAT meeting
Consists of:
Problem Description
Prior SAT meeting interventions
Class performance
Current grades
Parent-Teacher conference notes
Behavioral / Social information
Student record
Formative test assessments
Transcripts
Attendance
Discipline record
Health information
Previous SAT referral evaluations
School administrator or designee to act as the chairperson
Reasons for Referral
Academic difficulties despite interventions
Significant behavioral/discipline problems
Inelegible for Special Education
Hearing/Vision/Health problems
Gifted consideration or academic acceleration
Alternative school consideration
Attendance problems
Alcohol/tobacco/drug policy
Principal or Referral Officer
Referral Officer schedules meeting within 10 days of referral
Created By: Robbie Gordon
Notifies all parties dates and times AT LEAST 5 days prior
Office of Special Programs Policy 2419. (n.d.). Retrieved January 30, 2020, from https://wvde.state.wv.us/osp/policy2419.html
Parents