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Just to be clear, the Dynamic Learning Disabilities are not for students with Learning Disabilities.  They are for students with "Significant Cognitive Disabilities", generally kids classified as Intellectually Disabled (although not the kids at the mild end of this spectrum), Autism (the subset of this disorder with significant intellectual and communication deficits), Traumatic Brain Injury (again a subset of these students), or Multiple Disabilities (when the multiple disabilities include one or more of the previously mentioned disabilities).  [/quote]

It sounds as if the Dynamic Learning Map assessments will be useful though, for the kids OP is talking about -- kids like hers who have severe learning disabilities in processing and using language.   For example, someone -- I think it was OP,  said that while in K her child might have been able to understand a detail in a text, he would not have been able to communicate the response to the teacher as other children in K were able to do, due to his receptive language issues.   That's a pretty severe communication disability if he can't communicate even with the accommodations allowed to all students.   So this type of assessment would be a godsend for that small percent of the population that really needs it.

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I am the OP. My son does not qualify for these assessments. Only 1 percent of students at a school will be able to take it -- that's Arne Duncan's decree, regardless of how many kids it would benefit.  At my son's school, only about 6 kids would qualify, and because t has the cognitive disabled population, he won't be in that mix.

They have decided to limit this to very, very low IQ students. [/quote]

Well, THAT's the issue I think needs to be changed.   Instead of trying to get Common Core state standards repealed, try to expand access to alternative assessments to the 2% of severely disabled students who really need it.   The 1% rule you reference should be returned to 2% or whatever it used to be.   That's where the real problem lies.  [/quote]

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