NASP Position Statements

Position statements represent the official policy of NASP and are approved by the NASP Delegate Assembly. The Child and Profession Committee oversees the development and revision of position statements. Position statements are routinely reviewed every seven years. To recommend a change or to suggest that a new position be established, contact your state delegate.

• Appropriate Academic Supports to Meet the Needs of All Students
  (replaces "Advocacy for Appropriate Educational Services," "Inclusive Programs," and "Rights Without Labels")
• Appropriate Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Supports to Meet the Needs of All Students
  (replaces "Advocacy for Appropriate Educational Services," "Inclusive Programs," "Emotional and Behavioral Disorders," and "Rights Without Labels")
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Bullying Prevention and Intervention in Schools
• Child Rights
• Corporal Punishment in Schools
• Early Childhood Assessment
• Early Childhood Services
  (replaces "Early Childhood Care and Education" and "Early Intervention Services")
• Effective Parenting: Positive Support for Families
• Effective Service Delivery for Indigenous Children and Youth
• Ensuring High Quality, Comprehensive Pupil Services
• Grade Retention and Social Promotion Position Statement
• Grade Retention and Social Promotion White Paper
• HIV/AIDS
• Identification of Students With Specific Learning Disabilities
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth
• The Importance of School Mental Health Services
  (replaces "Interagency Collaboration to Support the Mental Health Needs of Children and Families" and "Pupil Services: Essential to Education")
• Necessary Use of the Title "School Psychologist"
• Prevention and Intervention Research in the Schools
• Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination
• Recruitment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse School Psychologists
  (replaces "Minority Recruitment")
• School-Family Partnering to Enhance Learning: Essential Elements and Responsibilities
  (replaces "Home-School Collaboration")
• School Psychologists' Involvement in the Role of Assessment
• School Violence
• Serving Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Supervision in School Psychology