Collaboration Series- Module 1: IEP Team Multidisciplinary Collaboration
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For professionals navigating overlapping IEP responsibilities, Ann Beirne and Jennifer Rumfola examine team roles, shared goals and disagreements between disciplines. Their historical panel compares collaboration models and discusses parent participation, social validity and evidence-based practice in school teams.
Presenter biographies: Ann Beirne.
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Beirne and Rumfola work through the roles of educators, behavior analysts, speech-language pathologists and other team members. They distinguish parent presence from active engagement and discuss how professional obligations, resources and terminology shape collaboration.
The panel compares multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work, then returns to shared implementation in schools. Its sensory-strategy discussion examines professional disagreement, antecedent changes and reinforcers, alongside the distinction between evidence-based practice and decisions based on an individual student's data.
What does this recording cover?
- The session maps IEP team roles and areas of overlapping responsibility.
- Beirne and Rumfola discuss parent participation and the social validity of school goals and procedures.
- The panel compares multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration through medical and school examples.
- Beirne examines evidence-based practice and the use of individual student data.
- Rumfola and Beirne discuss sensory strategies as antecedent modifications or reinforcers within an ABA and occupational therapy disagreement.
Recording context: This historical panel has 2019 slide footers, no printed recording date and references to the pre-2022 BACB ethics code.
What did learners say?
The six-item evaluation mean was 4.42/5 across 40 complete responses, from 291 recorded rating responses. This mean includes only complete six-score responses. Source: Special Learning's course evaluation records, snapshot October 11, 2026.
Three selected anonymous responses appear below, with the wording and spelling retained. They describe learners' experiences and requests; they are not a guarantee of results.
Too much talking made it difficult to retain all the content.
Course evaluation response, 2023
provide a copy of the slides, not just a transcript
Course evaluation response, 2023
Walk through an example of how each team member could play their role within an IEP team given an hypothetical situation
Course evaluation response, 2023
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