Screening students at risk for academic failure and attempting interventions before referring them to special education is a critical district function. This guide helps administrators understand and implement the prereferral process by exploring key concepts and offering step-by-step strategies for creating an effective program.
Plus, Implementing the Prereferral Process provides:
- An outline of each step of the prereferral process
- Prereferral team case studies to show you how principles and strategies apply to real-life situations
- Clear-cut explanations of how the process is critical to the goals of IDEA and NCLB
- A plan for combating unnecessary referrals -- including overidentification of minority students and misidentification of disabling conditions
- And much more
You also find out how the IDEA and NCLB impact prereferrals -- so you know what the laws require. And, you get sample interventions and data-collection strategies for reading, writing, math and social interventions, along with outlines for gathering parents' input and school baseline data.
