Supposedly they are supposed to brainstorm what interventions and accommodations can be made in order for the child to succeed. These are supposed to be normal, easy interventions (change seats, after school tutoring, guidance counselor sessions, etc). You have to try at least two and document them and give them a chance to fail, I mean work. Then once they fail you can decide to begin assessments both classroom and psychologist administered to find more information to determine the scope of the problem and eligibility.
But now you have Response To Intervention and there supposedly are more push in assistants giving small group instruction and in our school they schedule an entire 30 minute intervention period (my son tends to get gifted enrichment during this time at the elementary school and at the middle school those not getting intervention get drop everything and read two days a week and study hall the other).
