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Now Have We Gotten It Right?: Exploring The Special Education Referral Process, Janine Sue Wahl Jan 2008

Now Have We Gotten It Right?: Exploring The Special Education Referral Process, Janine Sue Wahl

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This qualitative inquiry explored the special education referral process as understood and implemented by two first grade teachers in a rural school. Both were interviewed and their classes observed; team meetings about their referrals were attended and recorded. The results of these observations were examined through the beliefs and assumptions about teaching and learning by the two teachers.

Each teacher referred two students into the process during this study, but none of the four students was found eligible for special education services during first grade. Through a cross-case analysis of the teachers and these students, distinct differences and commonalities were …