Referrals for formal educational assessment of students should be made through the Principal to the Special Needs Consultant, or to another appropriate person or agency. A referral may be made by a student, parent, guardian, teacher, or other agency. The Principal shall ensure that all such referral forms are signed by a parent or guardian of the student on whose behalf the referral is made.

In making educational assessments, formal strategies - including group and/or individual achievement and aptitude tests, as well as measures designed to assess such things as adaptive behaviour, specific learning abilities, and classroom behaviour - may be used. Informal strategies may also be used in the assessment process. These could include, but are not limited to, such things as observations, curriculum-based assessment, work sample analysis, task analysis, informal inventories, criterion-referenced tests, check lists and rating scales, interviews and questionnaires.

The placement of students in special programs, except as referred to below, shall be made by the Principal, after appropriate consultation with students, parents, teachers, the Special Needs Consultant, and other persons, as deemed necessary by the Principal.

The placement of students with disabilities, as defined in The Education Act, 1995, and the Regulations thereunder, in special needs programs will be made by the Director of Education, after consultation with students, parents, teachers, the principal, the Special Needs Consultant and other persons, as deemed necessary by the Director of Education.

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