IDEA – 2004 Signed into Law – Implications for School Psychology

Brent Duncan, Ph.D., NCSP

CASP Training and Accreditation Specialist

NASP GPR Committee Member

On December 3, 2004, President Bush signed the recently reconciled House-Senate bill to reauthorize IDEA. The low-key public ceremony finally ended nearly 3 years of discussion and often partisan debate regarding the future of federal legislation authorizing special education.

During the next 12 months, all of the stakeholders in special education have an opportunity to identify and understand those areas of change most relevant to their roles and responsibilities, and work with state and federal personnel responsible for writing the regulations that will implement the law. CASP will also begin to offer the training and cross-training to hopefully assure that this transition goes as smoothly as possible.

The goal for this brief update is to present a prediction of events that will take place during the next year, and to outline some of the critical changes that will affect the profession of school psychology. For the remainder of this article, unless otherwise

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