Maintaining School-based Prereferral Teams: An Eight Year Study.

Hammond, Helen; Ingalls, Lawrence

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ERIC Number: EJ607016

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Maintaining School-based Prereferral Teams: An Eight Year Study.

Hammond, Helen; Ingalls, Lawrence

Rural Special Education Quarterly, v18 n2 p17-21 Spr 1999

Prereferral teams have been found to reduce special education referrals. A followup study of 10 prereferral teams in a rural northwestern school district found that strategies for successful team maintenance included training and rotating members, utilizing various skills of multidisciplinary members, administrative support, and implementing a tracking system. Offers advice for other prereferral teams. (TD)

Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Persistence, Prereferral Intervention, Referral, Rural Schools, Special Education, Teacher Burnout, Teacher Collaboration, Teamwork

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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