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• If appropriate, ask a teacher or specialist to screen student for the
purposes of determining appropriate instructional strategies for
curriculum implementation. This screening is not an
evaluation for eligibility for special education and/ or related services,
and does not require parental consent.
• Previous intervention strategies or programs
• Parental concerns and information on the child’s development
• Student’s relationships to other student and adults
Once the background data has been collected and reviewed, the Child Study Committee
will be able to clarify the problem by:
• Describing, in observable and measurable terms, the weaknesses that need to be
addressed by the team. Providing baseline data of where the student is
currently performing is an important task at this step.
• Analyzing the problem by generating hypotheses in more than one domain about
why the behavior is occurring. Domains include: curriculum, instruction,
school/classroom environment, peer relations, home/ community, and child
characteristics.
Step 1 Common Pitfalls
Guiding Questions
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The concern is vague or general
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Description is not behavioral
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Jumping to generating interventions
before problem has been analyzed
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What is it you would like the student
to do to be successful?
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What does the solved problem look
like?
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Do we fully understand the problem
yet?
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