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Burdette, Paula; Etemad, Pontea – Project Forum, 2009
Response to intervention (RTI) arose, in part, from the limited success of the pre-referral process, an approach advocated in the 1980s and 1990s, and accurately measuring the discrepancy between aptitude and achievement in young children. Reflecting these concerns, when the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was reauthorized in…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, State Programs, Eligibility, Disabilities
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Macy, Marisa; Bagnato, Stephen J. – NHSA Dialog, 2010
The inclusion of young children with disabilities has remained a function of the Head Start program since its inception in the 1960s when the United States Congress mandated that children with disabilities comprise 10% of the Head Start enrollment (Zigler & Styfco, 2000). Standardized, norm-referenced tests used to identify children with…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Disadvantaged Youth, Norm Referenced Tests, Disabilities
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Teacher Rights Div. – 1978
A study was conducted by a National Education Association (NEA) panel of experiences in three local school districts with state and local regulations that approximated the provisions of Public Law (PL) 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act). Selected testimony and case studies from educators, parents, and children in Des Moines…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Wood, David; Trickey, Steve – British Journal of Special Education, 1996
This article reviews transition planning requirements specified in the Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment of Special Educational Needs in Great Britain and the effectiveness of the requirements. The Code's emphasis on social and independent living skills is discussed, as is the need for schools to balance process and procedure.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Planning
Larter, Sylvia; And Others – 1986
A study assessed parental satisfaction or concern with the identification, placement, and review process as developed and implemented by the Special Education Department of the Toronto Board of Education. Interviews were completed with 208 parents who participated in the process during January and February 1986. Fifty-eight percent of the parents…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
Anderson, Betty N.; Bower, JoAnn C. – 1986
The document includes two questionnaire/survey instruments, one completed by 36 pupil appraisal personnel (e.g., psychologists, social workers, physical therapists, nurses) and the other completed by 38 child search coordinators as part of a study designed to evaluate the quality and efficiency of early education programs serving handicapped…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Classification, Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis