Early intervention will help special education need student to get early enforcement in learning. Therefore, this study aims is to identify teacher strategies and ability in identifying students with special needs. This mix method study involve 16 respondent in qualitative study while 219 respondent in quantitative study. The sample is convenience sampling and the data analysis with SPSS and thematic analysis. The research findings was 50.2 % respondent achieve mastery level while 49.8% was below mastery level. The research also found that respondent able to identify student with SEN based on their appearance and behavior. Therefore. The qualitative found that majority of respondents able to identify students with disabilities thru student’s behavior and characteristic while some of respondents identify pupils based on academic performance including students’ abilities to read and write