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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again: To the poster at 7:53, do you by any chance have a link to the disability worksheets/eligibility questionnaires that you mention?

Thanks again to everyone for taking the time to respond to my post. [/quote]

Sadly, no.  They don't seem to be publicly accessible, though someone once suggested they could be FOIA'd...  I do have the sheets from about 4 years ago for DD, OHI and SLI though - retyped, below. They're called "disability worksheets" - it's possible AJE has access to them, even just from other case files (obviously they wouldn't show you those kids, but could perhaps cut off identifying information and provide them/do a similar re-type).  They may have changed slightly in the past 4 years, though I recall the one we did for my daughters DD last year (which somehow I don't have a copy of...) looking very similar to this DD one.  But it shouldn't have been a drastic change. Basically the team has to check "yes" for each # for the child to meet the criteria.  You'll note that only DD has a 2SD criteria (though in my experience that's not generally enforced, strictly - even early stages didn't get hung up on that point with us) and that's just because that's how DC has chosen to define DD eligibility.  I didn't retype the whole SLI one, it's lengthy, just a few places as examples where there were parentheses provided lengthy detail.  The basics are there though.

Developmental Delay:

Eligibility Criteria
1.	Student is between 3 and 7 years old at the time of determination
2.	Exhibits severe developmental delays: at least 2 years below chronological age and/or 2 SD below the mean in one or more of the following areas:
a.	Physical Development
b.	Cognitive Development
c.	Language and Communication Development
d.	Social or emotional development
e.	Adaptive development
3.	Student does not have autism; traumatic brain injury; mental retardation; emotional disturbance; other health impairment; orthopedic impairment; visual impairment, including blindness; hearing impairment including deafness; or speech/language impairment.
4.	Adversely impacts the student’s development to the extent that the student requires specially designed instruction.
5.	Impact on developmental or academic functioning is not primarily the result of behavior.

Speech or Language Impairment:

Eligibility Criteria
1.	The SLP determines the present of absence of speech and language impairment based on rules and regulations for special education in at least one of the following areas:
a.	Articulation impairment (the student’s speech must have atypical production of speech sounds…that interferes with intelligibility in conversational speech and obstructs learning and successful verbal communication in the educational setting…)
b.	Fluency impairment (…)
c.	Language impairment (impaired comprehension and/or use of spoken language which may also impair written and/or other symbol systems and is negatively impacting the students ability to participate in the classroom environment.  The impairment may involve, in any combination , the form of language (…), tbe content of language(…), and/or the use of language in communication (pragmatics) that is adversely effecting the student’s educational performance)
d.	Voice/resonance impairment (…)
2.	Adversly impacts the student’s educational performance to the extent that the student requires specially designed instruction
3.	The team determines that the student is a student with a disability and is eligible for special education and appropriate specialized instruction needed to access the student’s curriculum
4.	The team has reviewed documented results of at least two or more measures or procedures administered in the areas of impairment and documentation of adverse effect.

Other Health Impairment

Eligibility Criteria:

1.	The impairment is due to a chronic or acute health problem such as asthma, ADHD, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, …. Identify the specific condition that limits strength, vitality, or alterness, that results in limited alterness to the educational environment and has an adverse effect on educational performance.
2.	The health impairment adversely affects a student’s educational performance.  Identify the source of current data used to make a determination regarding this criterion.
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