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Direct linkZirkel, Perry A. – Communique, 2022
For this 22nd article in the series reviewing recent court decisions concerning appropriate school psychology practice from both professional and legal perspectives, the topic is child find and eligibility under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), including as a secondary matter the intersecting requirement for a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Download full textElizabeth Burr; Jamey Burho – WestEd, 2022
Young multilingual learners are a highly diverse group who benefit from high-quality classroom instruction that includes rich language and literacy development opportunities. However, some of these children will experience academic difficulties even with robust support. It can be challenging to distinguish between their language learning needs and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Preschool Children, Children, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedChristo, Catherine; D'Incau, Barbara J.; Ponzuric, Jenny – Contemporary School Psychology, 2017
The California Association of School Psychologists (CASP) responds to a critique of the Association's Position Paper: "Specific Learning Disabilities and Patterns of Strengths and Weaknesses" (2014, March. Available: http://casponline.org/about-casp/publications/) by McGill and Busse. The CASP offers corrections to McGill and Busse's…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, School Psychologists
Massengale, CoCo; Choi, Linda; O'Day, Jennifer; Knudson, Joel – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, and in many cases exacerbated, disparities among students that result from their socioeconomic status, language background, race and ethnicity, and disability classification. Now more than ever, school systems need to understand student needs and respond with targeted supports that address these needs. One…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Districts, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
Maltese, Joan; Aguayo, Joannie; Chavez, Jose – Zero to Three (J), 2011
The Child Development Institute, a nonprofit early intervention program in California, conducted a needs assessment which revealed a community that was receiving little support for infants and toddlers. There was virtually no enrollment in Part C early intervention services despite ranking high on environmental risk factors. This article describes…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Needs Assessment, Toddlers, Infants
Samuels, Christina A. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
The 2004-05 school year didn't start off well for the Sanger Unified School District. The district, located east of Fresno, had entered its first year of "program improvement"--a gentler way of saying that Sanger was among the 98 lowest-performing districts in the state based on success criteria in the No Child Left Behind law. The…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Program Improvement, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
Zirkel, Perry A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010
Students with specific learning disability (SLD) continue to account for a higher proportion of all special education enrollments than any other classification under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Probably the most frequent topic in the special education literature since the 2004 amendments to IDEA has been the movement…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Learning Disabilities, Laws, Special Education
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
Educators in the Chula Vista Elementary School District determined what kind of instruction students needed through a "response to intervention" (RTI) process, which provides extra help to struggling students with an aim of reducing the number of referrals to special education. As RTI catches on throughout the country, the district is on…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Districts, Early Intervention, Formative Evaluation
Restori, Alberto F.; Gresham, Frank M.; Cook, Clayton R. – California School Psychologist, 2008
When Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act in 2004 (IDEIA 2004), local educational agencies (LEA) were permitted to use a Response-to-Intervention (RtI) approach for identifying children with possible learning disabilities for special education. Furthermore, IDEIA 2004 no longer required LEAs to establish an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities, Intelligence Tests
