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Please contact us by email referral@idamib.org
or by phone (616-717-2984) if you have questions and concerns about someone's
reading situation.
Please include the following information when contacting us so that we
may more quickly assist you:
For person under the age of 18:
- Age and Grade
- School District
- Has School Evaluation has been completed?
- Has Private Evalution been done?
For person over the age of 18:
Definition of Dyslexia: Dyslexia is a
specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized
by difficulties with accurate and / or fluent word recognition and by
poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result
from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often
unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision
of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences may include
problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that
can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge.
Adopted by the IDA Board of Directors, Nov. 12, 2002.
This Definition is also used by the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development (NICHD).
Michigan Regulation
R 340.1713 "Specific learning disability" defined; determination.
Rule 13. (1) "Specific learning disability"
means a disorder in 1 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 to do
mathematical calculations. The term includes such conditions as perceptual
impairments, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia,
and developmental aphasia. The term does not
include children who have learning problems that are primarily the result
of a visual, hearing, or motor impairment, of a cognitive impairment,
of an emotional impairment, of autism, or of environmental, cultural,
or economic disadvantage.
(2) The individualized education program team may determine
that a child has a specific learning disability if the child does not
achieve commensurate with his or her age and ability levels in 1 or more
of the areas listed in this subrule, when provided with learning experiences
appropriate for the child's age and ability levels, and if the multidisciplinary
evaluation team finds that a child has a severe discrepancy between achievement
and intellectual ability in 1 or more of the following areas:
(a) Oral expression.
(b) Listening comprehension.
(c) Written expression.
(d) Basic reading skill.
(e) Reading comprehension.
(f) Mathematics calculation.
(g) Mathematics reasoning.
Click
here to download complete text of this regulation R340.1713
Federal law requires that public school districts provide
special education and related services to children who need them. For
sample letters, including one requesting a Special Education Evaluation,
please see the samples provided at the Student Advocacy Center of Michigan:
http://www.studentadvocacycenter.org/sampleletters/index.shtml
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