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Under the revised law, school districts are no longer required to use the IQ-achievement discrepancy model to assess whether a child is learning disabled. As a result, psychologists working in schools that adopt new assessment methods must alter how they assess students, perhaps in ways they aren't familiar with.
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www.apa.org/monitor/apr05/idea.html
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The House and Senate versions of the bill that will reauthorize IDEA explicitly say schools wouldn't be required to use the traditional method of determining learning disability--the IQ-achievement discrepancy model, which identifies children as learning disabled (LD) when their scores on achievement tests...
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www.apa.org/monitor/sep03/disabled.html
www.apa.org/monitor/sep03/disabled.html
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Learning Disabilities Assessment: An Explanation ... The most widely used model to test for a learning disability is the "discrepancy model." If your state uses this approach, your child will receive an educational evaluation, consisting of academic achievement testing, and a psychological evaluation, consisting of an IQ test.
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www.iser.com/assessLD.html
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DISCREPANCY MODELS IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF LEARNING DISABILITY Kenneth A. Kavale, University of Iowa On April 6, 1963, Samuel A. Kirk told a parent advocacy group that "Recently, I have used the term `learning disability' to describe a group of children who have disorders in development, in language, speech, reading,
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www.ldaofky.org/LD/Discrepancy%20Models%20for%20LD.pdf
www.ldaofky.org/LD/Discrepancy%20Models%20for%20LD.pdf
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LD OnLine is the leading website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find authoritative guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech and related disorders.
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Learning disability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Learning disability (sometimes called a learning disorder or learning difficulty ), is a disorder in which a person has difficulty learning effectively, caused by an unknown factor or factors. Th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_disability
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Key Words: component model of reading • discrepancy model of learning disability • cognitive domain • psychological domain • ecological domain • differential diagnosis • word-recognition training • comprehension strategy training...
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ldx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/1/67
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While many schools use an IQ-Achievement Discrepancy model to identify the presence of a learning disability, that is students with learning disabilities show an unexpected gap between their potential and achievement, there is a push for schools to use a Response to Intervention (RTI) method to identify...
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www.cec.sped.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Identifying_Le...
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... differences regarding the methods and value of the discrepancy model, ...... LEARNING DISABILITY DISCREPANCY GUIDELINES. Adopted 1/8/01. PAGE 1 of 4 ...
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www.sonomaselpa.org/selpa/docs/guidelines_2.pdf
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