§ 20-28-1-11 — "School psychology"

Indiana § 20-28-1-11

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 20: EDUCATION
• Art. 28: SCHOOL TEACHERS
• Ch. 1: Definitions

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"School psychology" means the following:
(1) Administering, scoring, and interpreting educational,
cognitive, career, vocational, behavioral, and affective tests and
procedures that address a student's:
(A) education;
(B) developmental status;
(C) attention skills; and
(D) social, emotional, and behavioral functioning;
as they relate to the student's learning or training in the academic
or vocational environment.
(2) Providing consultation, collaboration, and intervention
services (not including psychotherapy) and providing referral to
community resources to:
(A) students;
(B) parents of students;
(C) teachers;
(D) school administrators; and
(E) school staff;
concerning learning and performance in the educational process.
(3) Participating in or conducting research relating to a student's
learning and performance in the educational process:
(A) regarding the educational, developmental, career,
vocational, or attention functioning of the student; or
(B) screening social, affective, and behavioral functioning of
the student.
(4) Providing inservice or continuing education services relating
to learning and performance in the educational process to schools,
parents, or others.
(5) Supervising school psychology services.
(6) Referring a student to:
(A) a speech-language pathologist or an audiologist licensed
under IC 25-35.6 for services for speech, hearing, and language
disorders;
(B) an occupational therapist licensed under IC 25-23.5 for
occupational therapy services; or
(C) a physical therapist licensed under IC 25-27 for mandated
school services within a physical therapist's scope of practice;
by a school psychologist who is employed by a school corporation
and who is defined as a practitioner of the healing arts for the
purpose of referrals under 42 CFR 440.110.
The term does not include the diagnosis or treatment of mental and
nervous disorders, except for conditions and interventions provided for
in state and federal mandates affecting special education and
vocational evaluations as the evaluations relate to the assessment of
handicapping conditions and special education decisions or as the
evaluations pertain to the placement of children and the placement of
adults with a developmental disability.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-1-1.9-2.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.157-2006, SEC.9; P.L.99-2007, SEC.175; P.L.197-2007, SEC.14; P.L.196-2021, SEC.15.