trauma informed IEPs?

You guys are awesome. Thank you so much. I will follow up on this.  Heather Forbes chapter sounds great.

Such potential for classroom transformation too and I like the focus on universal interventions--a trauma informed RtI model.

Agree with Lee that framing IEP's using TIC language with a good Behavior Intervention Plan using TIC strategies helps everyone stay in that frame of mind when working with the student. Check out, "Help For Billy," by Heather Forbes, LCSW. The last chapter is devoted to trauma-informed IEP's including actual samples of IEP goals rewritten to be trauma-informed. A great resource.

As a school psychologist I sit in a lot of iep development meetings. I try to focus on what competencies the student needs to mitigate the impact of trauma. This often is focused on executive functioning skills, short term memory skills, emotional regulation skills or independent functioning skills. 

I expand the goals outside of normal academic skill areas

I had a fantastic experience this last school year. I was in a school district with a traditional approach to behavior and it obviously was not working for one of the students. My background being in TIC is was pretty clear to me from the start. The parents were very persistent on aligning the initial IEP and the behavior intervention plan to trauma-informed practices. If not for their persistence, the usual approach (that already wasn't working) with behavior modification, "consequences", and ticket rewards (because motivation is all they need, right?) would have been put in place. 

When the student joined my caseload, with the TIC approaches in place, it didn't take long to see a quick turn around. He responded very quickly. I told the parents when we left one of the several IEP meetings to form that initial IEP that I thought they were trail blazers in making change. 

I'm not exactly sure if it is a specific process you are asking about. As someone writing an IEP, I would suggest focusing on universal precautions, eliminating triggers that are known, and aligning interventions to TIC practices. 

Unless learning disability is clear, I am thinking most often it would be a '504 Plan'  ?...