changes in IDEA 2004

[emeraldkity4]

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When Congress reauthorized IDEA, they changed the law about how to identify children with specific learning disabilities. IDEA 2004 says schools “shall not be required to take into consideration whether a child has a severe discrepancy between achievement and intellectual ability in oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skill, reading comprehension, mathematical calculation, or mathematical reasoning.”

I am attempting to get my daughter( who currently has a 504 but who had an IEP for 6 years) an IEP for specific learning disabilty</p>

<p>I have just started to learn about the changes in IDEA and how that may make it even more difficult than it was previously</p>

<p>anyone have stories about how things are changing?</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.wrightslaw.com/idea/art/ld.rti.discrep.htm[/url]”>http://www.wrightslaw.com/idea/art/ld.rti.discrep.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[AnonyMom]

<p>EmeraldKitty-- I wish I could help. Reading the language of the regulation is very confusing. If the school doesn’t have to take into account the severe discrepancy between the child’s intellectual ability and performance (which is affected by the LD), then what do they take into account in determining which accomodations are needed? I don’t mean this rhetorically; it just doesn’t make sense to me. As I’m reading it, it seems to be saying that schools don’t have to pay attention to the most pertinent data in creating accomodations. What am I missing?</p>

[Anona]

<p>…even the schoolfolk. I read on the National Association of School Psychologist (NASP) Yahoo forum that they don’t know what direction this will take. They don’t know how “RTI” or Response to Intervention will be implemented.</p>