The Multidisciplinary Team
What is the Multidisciplinary Team?A Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) is a team who formally assesses students who have received support and intervention from a Student Support Team (SST) but may not be responding adequately to the intervention and may need additional accommodations. The MDT works to formally assess those students to see if a suspected disability is present and to evaluate whether the student qualifies for Special Education and its services. The people who can refer students to the MDT are dependent on the regulations of the state, but it may include the classroom teacher, the student's parental figure or advocate, any professional staff members of the school district, and a judicial officer or other court representative.
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Who is in the Multidisciplinary Team?The members who make up the school's Multidisciplinary Team may include people such as the school psychologist, school nurse, classroom teacher, school social worker, special education teacher, educational diagnostician, physical therapist, behavioral consultant, speech/language clinician, audiologist, occupational therapist, guidance counselor, and the student's parents. The members of the MDT will all help each other as a team by working together to problem-solve and determine the possible causes for a student's behaviors and educational performance, determine an outcome, and discuss recommendations and next steps for addressing the student's suspected disability. As a teacher, my role in the MDT is important because since I work closely with the student, I can help provide my account of behaviors that I observed from the student and provide records of the student's schoolwork and how they responded to previous interventions which are valuable for effectively assessing the student. My role in the MDT is also important because I will work in conjunction with the SST and MDT to appropriately adjust my instruction to fit the needs of the student.
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