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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 156483" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>Hi P,</p><p> </p><p>In terms of the study hall class to get their homework done, it sounds as if your kids need what our county (which I know you know well) calls a "resource class," which teaches study skills in addition to working on homework. Does your SD have anything like that?</p><p> </p><p>In terms of dyslexia, I'm going to quote from an email I received from a friend about testing and coding for dyslexia (which I happened to ask her about a couple of years ago). I hope it's accurate and I hope it answers your questions.</p><p> </p><p>From my friend: </p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: black">"First of all dyslexia (Specific Reading Disability) is universally agreed now to be a language learning disability (read Shaywitzs book)</span></strong><span style="color: black">. <strong>It is best diagnosed by a team that includes speech/language testing and educational testing. However, it often co-exists with executive functioning issues. For that element, the team needs to include psychological testing with a psychologist conversant with language issues . . . It also often co-exists with other language disorders (receptive/expressive) and central auditory processing disorder (Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)), and that is worked up in a S/L location.</strong></span></p><p><strong><span style="color: black">What our SD does for coding, however, is put <u>everything relating to dyslexia in the hands of the team Resource (educator)</u> with respect to the reading disability), and <u>only Educational Assessments are used to make the diagnostic coding</u>, although the coding is the fruit of a team meeting relying on the Educators recommendation (thats your school Resource). When private testing is submitted, it is parceled out to whomever the counterpart is, the S/L, the Resource, or the school psychologist to "process," which takes them about a month, so they want private testing about 45 days before an IEP meeting. </span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: black">Ideally, if you have an IEP, in a Periodic IEP Review meeting, tell them you are getting testing, and ask them if theres anything they want included to head off problems. Then theyll likely do less rebuttal testing and adopt more of your report. Parents of dyslexics at the el ed level I know have found when they submit S/L testing, the school S/L does little benign tests (like The Listening Test), says your child can obey simple directions, and refuses services. The psychologist hopefully will be kept sidelined by the principal and Resource if theyre not very good, and you wont accrue ED or Other Health Impaired labels. The Educator will do some ed testing and the code is up to him/her on reading.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: black">So, I learned early on all the S/L testing in the world citing a specific reading disability did not dictate the code for our SD (although it made the case to our Resource to use the code). Recently at our IEP triennial planning meeting (to plan testing) the middle schools psychologist asked me why with all this testing in file dictating the need for S/L therapy for reading did my son never receive it in our SD? I replied I tried, but it was how our SD was organized to deliver services for dyslexics, and I understood reading instruction was in the hands of educators in our SD (and our RTSE nodded yes) and so I finally gave up, realizing you did not want someone who did not want to teach your son and who did not have the skills to remediate dyslexia to actually be made to do so."</span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 156483, member: 2423"] Hi P, In terms of the study hall class to get their homework done, it sounds as if your kids need what our county (which I know you know well) calls a "resource class," which teaches study skills in addition to working on homework. Does your SD have anything like that? In terms of dyslexia, I'm going to quote from an email I received from a friend about testing and coding for dyslexia (which I happened to ask her about a couple of years ago). I hope it's accurate and I hope it answers your questions. From my friend: [B][COLOR=black]"First of all dyslexia (Specific Reading Disability) is universally agreed now to be a language learning disability (read Shaywitzs book)[/COLOR][/B][COLOR=black]. [B]It is best diagnosed by a team that includes speech/language testing and educational testing. However, it often co-exists with executive functioning issues. For that element, the team needs to include psychological testing with a psychologist conversant with language issues . . . It also often co-exists with other language disorders (receptive/expressive) and central auditory processing disorder (Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)), and that is worked up in a S/L location.[/B][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=black]What our SD does for coding, however, is put [U]everything relating to dyslexia in the hands of the team Resource (educator)[/U] with respect to the reading disability), and [U]only Educational Assessments are used to make the diagnostic coding[/U], although the coding is the fruit of a team meeting relying on the Educators recommendation (thats your school Resource). When private testing is submitted, it is parceled out to whomever the counterpart is, the S/L, the Resource, or the school psychologist to "process," which takes them about a month, so they want private testing about 45 days before an IEP meeting. [/COLOR][/B] [B][/B] [B][COLOR=black]Ideally, if you have an IEP, in a Periodic IEP Review meeting, tell them you are getting testing, and ask them if theres anything they want included to head off problems. Then theyll likely do less rebuttal testing and adopt more of your report. Parents of dyslexics at the el ed level I know have found when they submit S/L testing, the school S/L does little benign tests (like The Listening Test), says your child can obey simple directions, and refuses services. The psychologist hopefully will be kept sidelined by the principal and Resource if theyre not very good, and you wont accrue ED or Other Health Impaired labels. The Educator will do some ed testing and the code is up to him/her on reading.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=black]So, I learned early on all the S/L testing in the world citing a specific reading disability did not dictate the code for our SD (although it made the case to our Resource to use the code). Recently at our IEP triennial planning meeting (to plan testing) the middle schools psychologist asked me why with all this testing in file dictating the need for S/L therapy for reading did my son never receive it in our SD? I replied I tried, but it was how our SD was organized to deliver services for dyslexics, and I understood reading instruction was in the hands of educators in our SD (and our RTSE nodded yes) and so I finally gave up, realizing you did not want someone who did not want to teach your son and who did not have the skills to remediate dyslexia to actually be made to do so."[/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]
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