Who should request a dual language assessment?
While individual teachers, counselors, administrators, other school personnel, parents, or primary caregivers may request consideration for a dual language assessment, referrals must show evidence that the school has followed the prereferral procedures outlined in the CLiDES flowchart and in FCPS Regulation 2217.2. The process requires that a group of educators or a team at the school level discuss concerns and that a consensus on the need for a dual language assessment be reached after other interventions have been systematically implemented. The members of an in-school problem-solving team, including the referring source(s) and an ESOL or a DLA teacher, is best able to initiate consideration for a dual language assessment and serve as a contact for the dual language assessment services staff.
