La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CXXXI-1353

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024

Section CXXXI-1353 - Educational Diagnostician (Special Education)

A. Eligibility requirements:

1. a minimum of a graduate degree in education earned from an institution of higher education accredited in accordance with 34 CFR 602 ;

2. hold a valid Type B or Level 2 Louisiana teaching certificate, and meet one of the following guidelines:

a. hold generic special education certification, with at least one year of classroom teaching experience in a properly certified area of special education; and

b. hold certification in at least two special education disability areas, with at least one year of teaching experience in a properly certified area of special education, noting that academically gifted is not an accepted special education area;

3. reading credit, as follows:

a. elementary/middle grades majors: six semester hours in diagnosis and remediation of reading problems with three semester hours that may be undergraduate coursework; or

b. secondary/all-level majors: nine semester hours of reading coursework, with six of the semester hours in diagnosis and remediation of reading problems and three of the semester hours in foundations of reading with three semester hours that may be undergraduate coursework;

4. have completed a minimum of 21 semester hours of graduate credit, as follows:

a. applied learning theory, three semester hours;

b. behavioral intervention strategies, including systematic behavioral assessment which must include 25 child contact hours, three semester hours;

c. consulting teacher strategies, three semester hours;

d. precision assessment and diagnostic/prescriptive strategies, three semester hours;

e. test theory, three semester hours;

f. educational diagnosis, three semester hours; and

g. supervised internship, to include 100 child contact clock hours in fieldwork involving the administration, scoring, and interpretation of norm-referenced and criterion-referenced individual educational tests, working with School Building Level Committees, teacher consultation, and implications for educational intervention through the development of the individualized assessment/intervention plan, three semester hours, and may be completed while employed on a provisional endorsement.

B. Provisional Educational Diagnostician. A one year provisional endorsement as an Educational Diagnostician may be issued if all requirements have been completed, with the exception of the 100-contact-hour internship. The intern employed on a provisional endorsement must work under a certified Educational Diagnostician who has a minimum of five years of field experience in that position. At the time of employment, the Louisiana employing authority must submit verification of the supervision component. Until the internship is completed and the provisional status is removed from the intern certificate, the supervising Educational Diagnostician shall sign all reports and evaluations involving the intern.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CXXXI-1353

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 32:1820 (October 2006), amended LR 46:1382 (October 2020), LR 48463 (3/1/2022), Repromulgated LR 481071 (4/1/2022).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10), (11), and (15), R.S. 17:7(6), R.S. 17:10, R.S. 17:22(6), R.S. 17:391.1-391.10, and R.S. 17:411.