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Developing a screening instrument for teacher referral of students with special needs to therapy services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Gwynnyth Llewellyn ,
David McConnell  and
Mike Bailey
Gwynnyth Llewellyn*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
David McConnell
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Mike Bailey
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
*
Address for correspondence: Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Disabilities, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, PO Box 170, Lidcombe NSW 2141 Australia. Phone 61 2 93519370, Fax 61 2 93519166, E-mail: OT_Llewellyn@CCHS.SU.EDU.AU.
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Abstract

Development of a screening instrument (the SRT) for teacher referral of students with special needs to therapy services is reported in this paper. Stage 1 was reported in Llewellyn & Maher (1993). In Stages 2 and 3, the instrument was trialed and subsequently refined with over 200 teachers and 60 therapists in NSW Schools for Specific Purposes and Support Classes. Multiple discriminant analysis was used to determine those items relevant to referral to therapy. The final version of the instrument contains 19 items. The instrument is suitable for determining individual student need for referral to occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech pathology for students with intellectual and/ or physical disability. The instrument can also be used for determining the extent and distribution of student need for therapy at classroom, school, regional or State levels.

Type
Research Article
Information
Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 4 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1997

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