Specific Learning Disabilities

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It is enlightening to know the Specific Learning Disability category isn’t so specific. There are many disabilities within this category that are labeled as a Specific Learning Disability. Furthermore, the law doesn’t provide guidance on how Response to Intervention, RTI, is supposed to be conducted and managed also, the data is being used to diagnose children instead of the data from comprehensive testing. Response to Intervention is a great tool for locating those children who are at risk and then proceeding with a referral for testing, but not the only data for diagnosis (Sattler, 2014). To me, it’s broad and confusing on how a child is diagnosed with a Specific Learning Disability which include areas of impairment in reading accuracy/rate/fluency

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