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child's problems or progress at school? Explain.
11. Have you ever attempted to talk with any school
representative about your child's special placement
or need?
Teacher, principal, or other? Explain.
(d) Sex
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CHILD ENROLLED IN NON REGULAR,
SPECIAL SCHOOL
1. (a) Name
(b) Age (c) Birthday
(e) Race
2. What grade was child last enrolled in?
3. Name of school?
4. Public or Private?
If Private: Parochial school?
Religious affiliation?
Other type of private school? Explain.
5. Where is school located?
6. Does the child live at the school? Why?
7. How long has child been enrolled at this school?
8. Did any special need or condition cause the
child's enrollment at the school? What?
9. When did you first realize he/she had this special
need?
10. When did school officials realize it?
11. Did they bring it to your attention?
12. Was the child given any tests before the child
was put in this program?
(a) Do you know what kind of tests they were?
(IQ, achievement, sight and hearing)
(b) Were you told about the test?
If yes, before or after they were given?
13. Have you ever seen the child's records or been
denied access to them?
14. Whose decision was it to put the child in this
school?
Parent!Adult
School Officials
Private or public agencies (name and explain)
Child
Independent evaluator/doctor psychologist
Other
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15. How much information did you have about the
school before the child was enrolled in it? Did
you have any choice about where to send your
child?
16. Do you think the program the child is receiving
is suitable for him?
17. Do you think it has helped him? Explain.
18. Is your child on a waiting list for any special
program at this school or another school?
Explain.
(a) If yes, how long has he been on list?
19. In the past has the child ever been enrolled in
a special program at this school or another
school?
(a) If yes, what? Explain.
20. Do you know how many other children are enrolled
in the special class or program? What is
the racial and ethnic composition of the class,
if you know it?
21. Does the school provide extracurricular activities?
What kind?
(a) Does the child participate in them?
22. Have any of the child's teachers or other school
authorities suggested that the child should be
given drugs or pills, prescribed by a doctor, for
some problem at school?
(a) If so, what kind of drugs or pills?
(b) Why did the school official say such treatment
might be needed?
(c) Did the school official suggest alternatives
to the drugs or pills?
(d) Did the school official say the child might
have to go i.nto a special class, another
school, or be dismissed from school if he
did not take the drugs or pills?
(e) What did you do then? Did you take child
to a doctor? What did the doctor say? Did
he prescribe the drugs? What were they
called? How often and how long did your
child take them? Did you notice any effect
of the drugs? Did the teacher or the other
school official tell you what effect the drug
had?
23. Who pays for your child attending the school?