NEPN/NSBA Code:  IHBAA

REFERRAL AND GENERAL EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS

It shall be the policy of Lewiston Public Schools to refer all school-age students suspected of having a disability that requires special education to the IEP Team for an evaluation in all suspected areas of disability. 

Referrals of students to the IEP team may be made by parents at any time, and by professional school staff regardless of the results of the initial Child Find activities, but after completion of the general education intervention process. Other individuals or agency representatives (including representatives of the Department of Health and Human Services) with knowledge of the child may also make referrals. Any such referral should be made in accordance with procedures that may be approved by the Superintendent of Schools.

Regardless of the source of the referral, a referral will be considered received by Lewiston Public Schools on the date that the written referral is received by the Special Education Director or designee. It shall be signed and dated by the Special Education Director or designee, thereby indicating the date of the receipt of that referral.

The Superintendent of Schools, in consultation with the Director of Special Education, may develop procedures for referral and the use of general education interventions within the local school unit, and may from time to time amend those procedures as necessary.

Legal Reference: Me. Dep't of Educ. Reg. ch. 101, §§ II(16), III, IV(2)(D), (E), V(4)(A) 

(July 2015).

Cross Reference: IHBAC – Child Find

IHBAA-R – Referral Procedures and General Education Interventions

Adopted: March 24, 2003 

Revised: January 8, 2007 

Revised: August 24, 2009 

Reviewed: September 10, 2012 

Revised: May 22, 2017 

Reviewed: September 25, 2017

Reviewed: October 23, 2023