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Direct linkHudson, Tina M.; McKenzie, Robert G. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2016
As it has become a prominent feature in the identification of students with specific learning disabilities (SLD), response to intervention (RTI) has generated significant interest and, in some respects, controversy regarding assessment and attendant procedures. In the present study, the authors surveyed state directors of special education…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, State Agencies
Algozzine, Bob; Wang, Chuang; White, Richard; Cooke, Nancy; Marr, Mary Beth; Algozzine, Kate; Helf, Shawnna S.; Duran, Grace Zamora – Exceptional Children, 2012
This article addresses the effects of 3-tiered comprehensive reading and behavior interventions on K-3 student outcomes in 7 urban elementary schools with a high prevalence of students considered difficult to teach. Specific features of each level of the implementation are described including screening and tier placement procedures, scheduling and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Emergent Literacy, Discipline, Program Effectiveness
Download full textKoehler, Holly; Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2010
A Fall 2010 survey of AISD parents, staff, and community members showed most were very satisfied with the district's preschool program for students with disabilities (PPCD). A separate supplemental report also was published.
Descriptors: School Districts, Preschool Education, Students with Disabilities, Parent Attitudes
Koehler, Holly; Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2010
This brief one-page report highlights some results described in the full report (published separately) of a Fall 2010 survey of AISD parents, staff, and community members. The results showed most were very satisfied with the district's preschool program for students with disabilities (PPCD).
Descriptors: School Districts, Preschool Education, Students with Disabilities, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewedLogan, Kent R.; Hansen, Carol D.; Nieminen, Paul K.; Wright, E. Heath – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2001
A study involving 24 elementary teachers found they were not using Student Support Teams (SST) as designed. Teachers believed the primary purpose of SST was to test and place students into special education, referred students with whom they had not been successful, and believed there was a covert evaluation process. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Inclusive Schools, Prevention
Peer reviewedWoods, Sadie Bryant; Achey, Virginia H. – Roeper Review, 1990
The Academically Gifted Project in Greensboro, North Carolina, sought to increase racial/ethnic group representation in an elementary school's Academically Gifted Program by enhancing referral and evaluation procedures rather than lowering or changing requirements for identification. This paper describes the project's development, procedures used,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Elementary Education, Eligibility
Guetzloe, Eleanor C. – 1991
This digest summarizes information on incidence in and identification and intervention of potentially suicidal children and youth with disabilities. Estimates suggesting that some categories of exceptional youth have higher suicide rates than the general population are cited. Suicide risk factors and signs that a student is potentially suicidal…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Identification
Peer reviewedMarston, Doug; Muyskens, Paul; Lau, Matthew; Canter, Andrea – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2003
This article describes the problem-solving model (PSM) used in the Minneapolis Public Schools to guide decisions regarding intervention in general education, special education referral, and evaluation for special education eligibility for high-incidence disabilities. Program evaluation indicates students received special education services earlier…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Classification, Definitions, Disability Identification
Peer reviewedBahr, Michael W.; And Others – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1993
Observations of the classroom behavior of 43 pupils in grades 5-7 at risk for referral to special education and teacher responses to rating scales indicated that student monitoring plus teacher-student contracts were as effective, if not more so, as teacher monitoring plus teacher-student contracts. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Performance Contracts
Spratt, James J. – 1994
This practicum was designed to increase the number of elementary school students eligible for placement in a gifted program by improving the prescreening process. Major goals were to: (1) improve teachers' ability to identify giftedness in children; (2) improve the referral rate for gifted screening; and (3) increase the identification and…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Check Lists, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedGottlieb, Jay; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1994
This paper reviews current practices in urban school districts, concluding that for inner-city children, special education referral, evaluation, and placement practices are not more effective now than 25 years ago. The characteristics and needs of inner-city special education youngsters and the difficult options facing school administrators are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Identification, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational History
Buttram, Joan L.; Kershner, Keith M. – 1988
This study examined the management, operation, and effectiveness of special education programs in 33 urban school districts from 1984-85 through 1986-87. Data were collected on special education students, facilities, budgets, pre-referral, referral, placement, exit from special education programs, program evaluation, vocational education, related…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Handicap Identification
Polirstok, Susan; Gottlieb, Jay – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2006
A professional development program which trained whole school staffs in the use of positive behavioral interventions for the purpose of reducing referral rates of students for misbehavior and special education evaluation. The program focused on training teachers and paraprofessionals in behavior management strategies to increase "high approval…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Referral
