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Assignment:

When you or a special education colleague receive a referral, what are your responsibilities? Does your school use a multi-tiered system (i.e., response to intervention RTI)? If so, please describe how the process works. When a student is referred for a special education evaluation, how do you involve the parents? Who usually participates on the multidisciplinary team? Do you administer any of the tests used in the evaluation? If so, what tests do you usually give (e.g., Woodcock-Johnson III, curriculum-based, etc.)? If not, who does the testing and what instruments do they use? Do you conduct classroom observations? If so, what method(s) do you use? What other data do you collect? How do you handle a referral of a student whose native language in not English? Who writes the evaluation report? If several individuals contribute, who is responsible for compiling it? When explaining the evaluation results to parents, what strategies do you use to ensure that they understand? What are the greatest challenges in the assessment process? What are the greatest rewards in the assessment process?