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Direct linkChristo, Catherine; Ponzuric, Jenny – Contemporary School Psychology, 2017
California Association of School Psychologists (CASP) adopted a Position Paper in March, 2014 intended to support school psychologists in California in electing to use a process known as Patterns of Strengths and Weaknesses (PSW) as one of three methods specified in IDEA 2014 and California Code of Regulations, Title 5, to identify students being…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, School Psychologists, Professional Associations, Position Papers
Ihori, Derek; Olvera, Pedro – Contemporary School Psychology, 2015
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act allows three methods of determining whether a student qualifies for special education as a student with a specific learning disability (SLD). The first and most controversial is the Discrepancy model, which requires a significant discrepancy between the student's intellectual ability and academic…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Eligibility, Federal Legislation
Download full textOlvera, Pedro; Gomez-Cerrillo, Lino – Contemporary School Psychology, 2011
The Individual with Disabilities Education Act mandates nondiscriminatory assessment for children who are culturally and linguistically diverse. Because of the overrepresentation of English Language Learners (ELL) in special education programs in the United States, the focus of this article is the psychoeducational assessment of Spanish- and…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Learning Disabilities, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
