Alnita Rettig Dunn, Ph.D. Psychological Services Coordinator, Los Angeles Unified School District Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Specialist
Practitioners in the field of school psychology find themselves in a landscape of change. Research, law, and policies that reflect a national concern for academic performance in the nation's schools are reshaping educational service delivery in this country. The focus on educational outcomes has created an urgency to improve academic achievement that permeates throughout the educational community, including the field of school psychology. For the past few years, thoughtful articles have described various directions in which the role of the school psychologist may change.
Current data in reading development, systemic behavioral interventions, learning disability, and brain research have converged to expand basic assumptions upon
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