Specific Learning DisabilityPeer Review 2013

Lee Pesky CenterDr. Evelyn Johnson

ejohnson@lplearningcenter.orgSESTA

Gina Hopperginahopper@boisestate.eduSL

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Introduction

SLD Construct and Policy

Process for Peer Review

Case File Calibration4

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Agenda

Purpose & Objectives

• Inform state level guidance on cognitive processing evaluation

• Provide meaningful feedback to school teams to help develop their understanding of the ‘big picture’ of LD identification

• Inform state level training needs for 2013-14 (e-file data collection)

SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY - 20 U.S.C. § 1401(26)(A); 34 C.F.R. § 300.7(c)(10)

(A) GENERAL - The term means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.

(B) DISORDERS INCLUDED - The term includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia and developmental aphasia.

(C) DISORDERS NOT INCLUDED - The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural or economic disadvantage.

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Response to Intervention Processing

Class performance

Benchmark Data

ISAT data

Academic Achievement Data

All achievement data

Progress Monitoring Data

Fidelity – do we match intervention to need? Are others making progress?

Qualitative Analysis of Work

Observation

Processing Evaluation – strengths and weaknesses

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Data should tell a consistent story about the child’s learning needs.and ensure that exclusionary criteria are considered and effectively ruled out.

Comments about observation (if needed)

Broad Processes that were agreed on during the School Psychologist Symposium:1. Fluid Reasoning2. Crystallized Intelligence3. Visual Processing4. Long-Term Storage and Retrieval5. Auditory Processing6. Processing Speed7. Short Term Memory

Case File Calibration

E-file procedure review (Sydney)

Work in teams to complete

Group discussion

Work in your teams4

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