Denice
Tucker, OTR
Manager,
School-Based Therapy Services, HCDE
·
Print a
map of the
district from the district website to locate schools.
·
Collect your student "folders" so you have needed information about each of
your students. These may be digital folders. Or if your district still uses
paper (“soft”) folders, collect them and find out where they are
securely stored.
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Review
ARD/IEP information (are current copies of goals and objectives,
accommodations/modifications, and
services page in your student folder?).
·
Determine ARDed service
(time, frequency, duration) and check to make sure
service time in your records matches that on the
service page in the IEP.
·
If you
are a PT, check to make sure the medical referrals for your students are
up to date.
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Familiarize
yourself with the student’s current IEP.
·
Meet
principals, office staff, diagnosticians, and ARD
chairperson at your schools and
provide
them with
your contact
information.
·
Meet/e-mail
teachers and find
out their schedules; find out when the student is doing
the activity the
activity that the IEP is addressing; give them your contact
information.
·
Organize a personal system to
manage documentation, such as a notebook with
student
attendance, progress notes, and IEP objectives.
·
Locate
resources and test materials in your district.
·
Observe your assigned students in
the classroom.
·
Think
through intervention strategies and decide how to serve students in
context by
embedding strategies; write an intervention plan. If needed,
write a plan for your OTA
or PTA.
·
Pick up
referrals that pertain to your schools and know the process to
proceed.
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Identify
district procedures for securing parent consent.
·
Ask about the flow of documentation in your district.
·
Determine how
and where to obtain needed equipment.
