The Board of Education will implement schoolwide approaches and pre-referral interventions in order to remediate a student=s performance prior to referral to the Committee on Special Education. Prior to referral, the building Child Study Team will consider, create and exhaust all appropriate building level instructional support services, programs and accommodations to address the student=s areas of academic difficulties. These may include, but are not limited to: differentiation of instruction within the general education setting, environmental accommodations, remedial reading, remedial math, speech improvement services, counseling, behavioral intervention plans and staff training. The Child Study Team shall document that pre-referral strategies have been implemented, monitored and assessed for a sufficient amount of time to ascertain the effectiveness of the intervention prior to considering a referral to the Committee on Special Education.

Pre-referral interventions will not be utilized as a barrier to prevent appropriate referrals for special educations services, but will be utilized as a tool to assess the ability of the student to benefit from regular education services.

Adoption Date: January 30, 2001