Being Prepared
Many parents find it helpful to write a letter to their IEP team prior to the meeting. This is an opportunity for your school team to learn about your hopes for and concerns about your child. It also helps the team prepare to address your needs before the meeting.
Upon completion of this section, you will:- Be aware of the differences between medical and school-based evaluations, and know which may be appropriate in your child’s school district and situation
- Know the components of an assessment of dyslexia or language-based learning disability
- Learn what to expect before, during, and after an evaluation
- Understand some of the quest
Upon completion of this section, you will:- Know that goal-setting should be based on targeted behaviors, pinpointed by your child’s evaluation and testing
- Have learned what target behaviors are, and how to select them
To begin therapy, the clinician (e.g., speech-language pathologist, reading specialist, learning disabiliti
Upon completion of this section, you will:- Be able to identify behaviors that may indicate that you have dyslexia or a language-based learning disability
- Understand the importance of both the presence of the behaviors, and their occurrence patterns
Identify and understand typical behaviors of dyslexia
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Focus on skills that underlie reading
"There are no universally effective programs, but here are knowable principles that need to be incorporated in all programs about how we teach written language."
Reading and writing are pervasive across grades and curricula
Virtually every subject requires some reading and/or wr
As a parent, you are entitled to play a major role in the educational planning process for your child with a language disability or dyslexia.
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