Child Study Team

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Child Study Team Response to Intervention
Procedures

• FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS, INC.
• 3000 School House Road
• Tallahassee, FL 32311
• [phone] FAX [phone]
• www.fsus.fsu.edu

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What is child Study Team? CST

• The Child Study Team (CST) is the first step in
  the process of identifying struggling students,
  determining appropriate interventions and/or
  referrals for evaluations. The CST consists of
  ESE department members, guidance counselors,
  reading coaches or teachers and the students
  homeroom teachers.

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What is Response to Intervention?

• RtI is the practice of providing high-quality
  instruction/intervention matched to student needs
  and using learning rate over time and level of
  performance to make important educational
  decisions.
• (For more details about the RTI Initiative,
  please view the Response to Intervention Link)
• National Association of State
• Directors of Special Education
• Policy Guide

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The First step..

• If a teacher/parent suspects a student is having
  an academic or behavior problem, The parent and
  teacher should first communicate together and
  attempt to solve the problem.
• Teachers and parents should work together to
  decide what skills and strategies will work best
  for the student prior to the CST/RTI Process.
• The teacher completes a Progress Monitoring Plan.

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Step 2

• Once all classroom interventions have been
  attempted, then a teacher may refer a child for
  Child Study Team or Response to Intervention
  Services.

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Step 3

• The teacher will contact student services or the
  grade level guidance counselor.
• The teacher will then complete a
  Pre-referral/Intervention form.
• Send a parent permission form and collect a
  variety of data necessary for student
  evaluations.

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Step 4

• Once documentation is collected, the first CST
  Meeting will be held.
• Teachers document/provide samples of
  pre-intervention work
• Review cumulative file
• Review absences/tardies
• Vision/Hearing Screening
• Speech/Language Screening
• Ability/Achievement Screen
• Brainstorm interventions
• Observation data
• Implement interventions for 3 weeks
• Recommend need for language evaluation as
  indicated

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The First CST Meeting..

• Discuss Student Data Review
• Discuss Baseline and Progress Monitoring Data
• Brainstorm Interventions
• Schedule and document follow-up meeting between
  case manager/guidance counselor and teacher.

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Following the first Cst Meeting

• Progress Monitoring will continue with
  communication from guidance, case worker and
  teacher.

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Step 5

• Second Child Study Team
• (Parents Invited)
• Teachers review results of interventions (post
  samples of work)
• Counselor reviews ability/achievement results
• Confirm pass on vision/hearing screen
• Confirm pass on speech/language screen
• Team decides on Response to Intervention
  Strategies.

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What are the possible outcomes or meeting 2?

• Student eligibility for language impaired
  determined
• Eligibility/Staffing/IEP scheduled if eligible
• OR
• The Response to Intervention Team meets to
  discuss various Tier-RTI Interventions Strategies
  and implementation of those strategies until the
  student is successful.

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Step 6

• RTI Team will continue to meet until student
  success is met based on individualized
  interventions.
• OR
• The team will issue a referral to FSUs
  Multidisciplinary Center. After the RTI
  Interventions are
• Parent Permission will complete necessary
  permission forms for screenings.
• We will issue parental rights.
• The team will provide parents with copies of
  screening.

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Final Step

• Feedback from FSU
• 1. Student qualifies
• SLD/Gifted-begin
• services
• OR
• 2. Student does not
• qualify, continue classroom
• interventions with Response to Intervention.