Using the Right Assessment Tools to Identify Specific Learning Disabilities
A school district must accurately and completely identify a child's specific learning disability. While school districts are responsible for assessing all areas of suspected learning disabilities, they have a great deal of discretion in the selection of assessment tools to identify and measure the severity of a given learning disability. An experienced special education attorney can help you review and evaluate the assessment tools chosen, and the ways the tests were scored and interpreted, to make sure that the development of an appropriate IEP proceeds from an accurate starting point.
In most cases, it is necessary to collaborate with independent experts to perform an effective critique of the assessment of a particular student's learning disability. We can help analyze if assessment tools were poorly chosen, if tests were incorrectly scored or interpreted, or if the proposed IEP is inconsistent with the findings of otherwise sound assessment procedures.
To learn how your family can benefit from the support of a lawyer with decades of experience in California special education, contact the Law Office of Caroline A. Zuk in Long Beach.
Los Angeles IEPs for Specific Learning Disabilities: Call 866-570-4173 or 562-375-0104
With professional experience as a special education teacher, diagnostic specialist and school district attorney, Caroline Zuk has a detailed understanding from multiple perspectives of the assessment of suspected learning disabilities and IEP development processes. Today, she uses the insights gained over the length of her career to benefit parents and students who depend on accurate assessments and effective special education programming and services to help address a child's disorder in one or more basic psychological processes:
- Attention
- Visual Processing
- Auditory Processing
- Sensory-Motor Skills
- Cognitive Skills
Psychological processing deficits may be manifested in a child's imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or perform mathematical calculations. Private practitioners may use different labels to describe characteristics of a specific learning disability, such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), dyslexia, Reading Disorder, Mathematics Disorder, Disorder of Written Expression, Learning Disorder, Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD) or visual perceptual dysfunction.
For additional information about the best ways to make sure that your child is positioned to receive the right special education program and services for a specific learning disability in California, contact the Law Office of Caroline A. Zuk in Long Beach.