Laws and such Flashcards
Summarize Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of disability. Schools must afford students with disabilities equal opportunity to obtain the same results, to gain the same benefit, or to reach the same level of achievement, in the most integrated setting appropriate to the students’ needs.
What is IDEA?
Current law that gives right to a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment
What is FERPA?
Sponsored in 1974; aka Buckley Amendment; gives families right to review the records of their child and the files must be kept confidential; people who do not have legal privileges cannot review a student’s file; confidentiality is central to this law
What is Section 504?
Civil rights law guaranteeing access to a school building and to a school’s curriculum; enforced by the office of civil rights (not the DOE) enforces it
No Child Left Behind
Requires schools to hire “highly qualified” and has high standards that are gauged by objective measures. Schools that don’t meet requirements can lose federal funding
Four sources of Quality Control in school psych services
- Ethics codes,
- Professional standards, -Educational Law, and -Credentialing/ training program accreditation
What are NASP’s 4 ethical principles
- Respect the Dignity and Rights of all Persons
- Honesty and Integrity in Relationships
- Responsibility to schools, families communities, the profession and society
- Professional Competence and Responsibility
Rule about Test use and misuse
You must maintain record and test confidentiality and security. You must understand the technical and psychometric principles of all measurements
rule about Confidentiality
You must make sure people know the limits of confidentiality (harm, safety) need written consent before sharing or destroying information.
What are the Supervision Standards
practitioners should known key aspects of proper supervision: Must be licensed/ credentialed, must have 2 hours a week of supervision, 1 supervisor per 10 interns.
What is the school psychologists highest responsibility?
The duty to protect children. Overrides confidentiality. Duty to warn
What is the major focus of a school psychologist?
Child benefit. Kids come first, help consultees and provide resources and information, but focus intervention to children.
What does it mean to provide balanced information?
Provide balanced opinions about the benefits and liabilities of treatments. (Don’t push Ritalin on the parents with a kid who has ADHD)
Describe the grievance process
When filing a complaint on a NASP member: you cannot be anonymous, you must speak to the person first, a committee will decide to hear the case or not, committee decides if complaint is valid. The person complained about is notify,attempts to resolve are made.
What are the Grievance actions?
Ethics committee may dismiss the case, seek more information, correct, place member on probation, require compensation or apology, require additional training, or expel from NASP
What should we know about Aversive procedures?
Restraints are discouraged, should be considered a last resort. You may use aversive procedures with informed parental consent in a situation when a child is in the act of hurting them self or others (Its okay to wrestle a gun from a kid, but not okay to pin a kid down for not listening)
