SPM and SPM-2 Quick Tips Case Study: What’s Behind Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom?

Educators and clinicians must make sure D/HH students are carefully, competently assessed early enough to prevent language deprivation. Doing so will mean that more students can spend their school years building skills and friendships. And more students can leave school ready for all the possibilities on the other side of the graduation stage.  

School mental health professionals often experience the erasure of the work they are trained to do—and find themselves doing other work instead.

Amid widespread teacher and staff shortages, school mental health professionals are more likely than ever to be saddled with duties that are unrelated to providing mental health services. The ASCA report showed that 39% of school counselors feel being assigned “inappropriate duties” is a significant day-to-day challenge (ASCA, 2021).  

In August 2022, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) published a revised position statement updating its recommendations for identifying students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs).