Policy – Category 5000 (Students) BP 5003 – Eligibility Criteria
• Written expression • Basic reading skills
• Reading comprehension • Mathematics calculation • Mathematics reasoning The discrepancy is due to a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes and is not a result of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantages. Basic psychological processes include attention, visual processing, auditory processing, sensory-motor skills, and cognitive abilities, including association, conceptualization, and expression. Intellectual ability includes acquired learning potential and shall be determined by a systematic assessment of intellectual functioning. The level of achievement includes the child’s level of competence in materials and subject matter explicitly taught in school and shall be measured by standardized achievement tests. Response to Intervention (RtI) Model The IDEA ( Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 300.307) ) requires states to adopt eligibility criteria for determining whether a child has a specific learning disability. States “must not require” the use of a severe discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement for determining whether a child has a specific learning disability as defined in Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 300.8(c)(10) and must permit the user of a process based on the child’s response to scientific, research-based intervention. Alternative Method Model States “must permit” other alternative research-based procedures for determining whether a child has a specific learning disability. An IEP may determine that a child has a specific learning disability if:
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Desert Mountain Charter Special Education Local Plan Area (DMCS) (rev. 09/17)
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