Specific learning disability Orthopedic impairment Other health impairment Multiple disabilities Intellectual disability Visual impairment Emotional disability Deafness Deaf-blindness (both) Traumatic brain injury Developmental delay Not all children with disabilities are eligible for special education services. After...
adversely affects educational performance, and the child is not retarded, does not have a visual, hearing or motor disability, is not emotionally disturbed, and is not negatively affected by environmental, cultural or economic disadvantages, it is likely that the child has a learning disability....
Secunda, Paul M., Book Review - at Best an Inexact Science: Delimiting the Legal Contours of Specific Learning Disability Eligibility Under Idea (Reviewing Perry a. Zirkel, the Legal Meaning of Specific Learning Disability for Special Education Eligibility (Council for Exceptional Children, 2006))....
46 The state criteria cannot require the use of a severe discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement for determining whether a child has a specific learning disability;47 must permit the use of a process based on the child’s response to scientific, research-based intervention;48 and ...
A specific part of the law mandates public schools to create an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for each student who is found to have an eligible disability. Least Restrictive Environment Free Appropriate Public Education Appropriate Evaluation Parent and Student Participation Procedural Safeguard...
For the child with a disability who has an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), the IEPshall include: "a statement of any individual appropriate accommodations that are necessary to measure the academic achievement and functional performance of the child on State and districtwide assessments . . ....
Specific learning disabilities that also warren the needs for special education services are covered. In addition to being covered by IDEA these students are also protected by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation act. Students that do not qualify for IDEA often receive services under Section 504. There...
The findings from a systematic analysis of these court decisions included (a) an upward trajectory in their frequency; (b) an outcome ratio of 2:1 in favor of the defendant school districts; (c) specific learning disabilities and emotional disabilities as the leading suspected IDEA classifications...
10.1.1. Intervention Techniques: seek appropriate medical services, make sure child has access to appropriate medication if necessary, allow child to have private tutor is hospitalized or unable to attend school due to disability, 11. Specific Learning Disability 11.1. Definition: a psychological illne...
Rowley helped to establish the requirements and limits of Individual Education Plans (IEP), a free academic service for any school child with a learning disability. Irving Independent School District v. Tatro , although specific to a child with spina bifida, helped to establish the medical care ...