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When Is Intervention an Ounce of Prevention? Reconceptualizing the Prereferral Intervention Process.
Bowman, Jan E. – 1987
The paper raises concerns about current intervention practices used with children who, while not handicapped, have academic and/or behavioral problems and who may be labeled handicapped. A lack of options for these high risk students is noted in regular programs, and the impact on the student and the system of the referral-to-testing-to-labeling…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Persons, Intervention
