AN INVESTIGATION OF INTERVENTION ASSISTANCE TEAMS AT A PRESERVICE LEVEL

The inclusion of special education students in the general education m ainstream has created a need for consultation services to meet their e ducational needs. The intervention assistance team (IAT) provides assi stance to students within the general education classroom through coll aborative efforts among school personnel from various disciplines. The purpose of this article is to present a methodology for investigating the effectiveness of various aspects of multidisciplinary IATs that w as developed as part of a larger interdisciplinary preservice training project. The application of this methodology provided information on the participation and influence across members of preservice intervent ion assistance teams. The benefits of this methodology are discussed.