Abstract
ABSTRACT This study involved a survey of parents of students with disabilities from a large urban school district in the Southeastern United States. It investigated parents' perceptions of the importance of selected functions of school psychologists, their ratings of problems in multidis-ciplinary team (MDT) special education placement meetings, and their overall satisfaction with psychological services. The parents' responses were examined in relation to a comparison group of parents from a statewide parent organization comprised of parents of children with disabilities. Also, the data from both parent groups were compared to studies in which school psychologists responded to similar questions. Both groups of parents rated all functions as important and assigned greater importance to all functions, except assessment, than did school psychologists. The school district sample reported a relatively high level of overall satisfaction with school psychologists' services; the statewide parent group reported a ...
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