IRIS: Related Services
Related Services What do they do?
1. Audiology
2. Counseling services
3. Early identification and
assessment of disabilities in
children
4. Interpreting services
5. Medical services (for diagnostic Determines a child’s medically
or evaluation purposes)
6. Occupational therapy
7. Orientation and mobility
services
8. Parent counseling and training
Help a student with hearing loss
or an auditory processing disorder
to access classroom curriculum.
Works with students to address
issues that interfere with their
educational success.
Implements a formal plan to
identify the child’s specific
disability as early in their lives as
possible.
Offers support to students who
are deaf or hard of hearing so
that they can access their
educational program.
related disability and need for
SPED and related services.
“Support a student’s
participation in school related
routines and activities”
“Services for students who are
blind or have low vision to orient
and assist the student in moving
safely around the school.”
Assist parents to better

9. Physical therapy
10. Psychological services
11. Recreation including
therapeutic recreation
12. Rehabilitation counseling
13 School health services and
school nurse services
14. Social work services in schools
understand the special needs of
their child and to assist them with
information to help their child be
more successful.
“Helps students with disabilities
to improve their functional skills
in various settings”
“Provide supports for students
who academic, emotional, or
behavioral issues”
Assesses leisure functions, both
in school and in the community to
help students with disabilities to
learn to use their leisure time in a
constructive way.
Focus on career development
and preparing students for
employment, independence and
post-secondary school
environments.
Services provided a school nurse
or qualified person that could
include medical administration,
written emergency plan.
Supports students with
disabilities whose academic,
behavioral, or social emotional
issues interfere with their

15. Speech-language pathology
services
16 Transportation
Types of service/Providing
Related Services
1. Consultative/Collaboration
services
2. Classroom-based services
3. Pull-out services
Common Roles of Professionals
education.
“Help students who have trouble
with communication skills
perform learning and school
related activities.”
Moving a student with a
disability to and from school as as
travel in and around school
buildings.
Definition
Gen Ed and related services
providers work together to meet
the needs of the student with a
disability. Student remains in the
Gen Ed classroom.
Services are brought to the
student in their classroom setting.
The provider may work
individually with the target
student or a small group including
them.
Student is taken out of the
classroom to a different location
to receive the related service.
Examples
1. Assessing and Referring
Students
2. Working with Students
3. Working with Parents and
Other Professionals
IRIS: Related Services
a. Screening, evaluating, and
assessing students to identify
problems that interfere with their
academic performance.
b. Making recommendations to
the IEP team concerning other
referrals, when warranted, for
other services.
a. Providing strategies,
modifications to improve
student’s school performance.
b. Training students in skills
required to help manage their
needs.
a. Serving as a member of the
students’ multidisciplinary teams.
b. Working with the AT specialists
and others to determine students’
needs.

Most common related WHAT are the Examples

Services services?
1. Speech-Language Help students who have trouble - Understanding verbal
with communication skills
Pathology Services directions from the
perform important learning and
teacher
school-related activities.
- Speaking in long
sentences

2. Occupational Support a student’s participation - Completing classroom

Therapy Services in school-related routines and assignments
activities. - Organizing classroom
materials and
workspaces

3. Physical Therapy Designed to help students - Walking or balancing

with disabilities to improve
Services their functional skills in a
- Carrying materials
variety of school settings,
including the classroom, gym,
and playground

4. Psychological Designed to provide supports - Difficulty organizing their

for students who have time.
Services academic, emotional, or
behavioral issues related to
- Trouble with their
academic work
their disabilities.

5. Social Work Services Supports students with - Social-skills Training

disabilities whose academic,
behavioral, or social-emotional
- Transition planning
issues interfere with their
education.