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IDEIA and Section 504 Teams -- The School Nurse as an Essential Team Member. Position Statement. Revised
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Yonkaitis, Catherine F.; Kinnaman, JoDe; Del Bosque, Adalia; Gargula, Sharon-rose; Copas, Diane – National Association of School Nurses, 2023
It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that the registered professional school nurse is an essential member of a multidisciplinary education team that identifies, evaluates, and monitors students who may be eligible for services through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA; 2004) or…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
School-Based Autism Evaluations in the COVID-19 Era
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Brunson McClain, Maryellen; Roanhorse, Tyus T.; Harris, Bryn; Heyborne, Megan; Zemantic, Patricia K.; Azad, Gazi – School Psychology, 2021
School psychologists play a critical role in school-based Autism (AU) evaluations. Evidence-based AU evaluations should be multimodal, include multiple informants, and assess functioning across several domains. In the current era of COVID-19, school-based AU evaluations have become increasingly complex with school psychologists having to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Evaluation Methods, School Psychologists
School Psychologists' Willingness to Implement RtI: The Role of Philosophical and Practical Readiness
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Fan, Chung-Hau; Denner, Peter R.; Bocanegra, Joel O.; Ding, Yi – Contemporary School Psychology, 2016
After the change in IDEIA, different models of response to intervention (RtI) have been practiced widely in American school systems. School psychologists are in an important position to facilitate RtI practice and provide professional development in order to help their school systems successfully undergo this transformation. However, there is a…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, School Psychologists, Role, Professional Development
A Primer on Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms
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Jantz, Paul B. – School Psychology Forum, 2015
The existence of persistent postconcussion symptoms (PPCS) is controversial, and there is ongoing debate as to whether the etiology of PPCS is psychogenic or physiogenic. In addition, there is a lack of agreement on diagnostic definitions of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and concussion and the terms are used interchangeably in the research…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Brain, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), School Psychologists
A Systematic Analysis of Paraprofessional Job Expectations: Development of the Paraprofessional Survey of Expectations Tool (P-SET)
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Christenson, Angela Maxine – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With increased accountability due to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA), the provision of services to children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment is necessary to ensuring an inclusive, free appropriate public education. Paraprofessionals are increasingly utilized as service providers for children…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Job Satisfaction, Expectation, Surveys
Individualizing Inclusion for Preschool Children Using Collaborative Consultation
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DeVore, Simone; Miolo, Giuliana; Hader, Joan – Young Exceptional Children, 2011
Under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act Amendments of 2004, special educators and related services personnel are required to support a child with disabilities in the setting deemed the least restrictive and most natural for that particular child. There is considerable variation in the consultation experiences and skills…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disabilities, Preschool Children, Special Education Teachers