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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve often looked at the gender breakdown of students with disabilities in our school. It’s about 3/4 boys. That number seems pretty lopsided given that disabilities typically affect both genders in equal numbers. The main difference is that girls often are not early identified because their behavior is often less disruptive than boys. One could argue that the lack of addressing the needs of girls with disabilities is discrimination due to disability and gender.

Definitely something MCPS should look into more and address. The numbers indicate a serious problem in schools.[/quote]

As a woman who had undiagnosed adhd +, and a parent of 2 children with adhd +, [b]it's not the schools job to find students with disabilities. [/b] The shocking disparity is the fault of the psychology industry,  not the schools.[/quote]
umm it's literally the LAW for schools to find students with disabilities![/quote]

How? What screening do they use they use? When is this screening performed? I don't know a single person who has had their child identified as learning disabled through the school yet I know many parents of learning disabled children.[/quote]

DP. The fact that it's the law is very clear, that's the "Child Find" obligation under IDEA (https://sites.ed.gov/idea/regs/b/b/300.111). The screening varies based on the suspected disability, but generally for a learning disability you're looking at cognitive and achievement testing plus other measures like behavioral assessment if necessary. The screening should be conducted when it becomes apparent that the student might have a disability, although often it happens after a parent referral even if the school should have acted sooner.

I know lots of parents who's kids disabilities were identified by the school based on parent request and a few where the schools initiated testing without parental request.[/quote]

That's not screening. ALL children in elementary school are screened for vision and hearing disabilities.  Children are ONLY screened for learning disabilities based on "suspected" learning disability which means a teacher or parent has to first recognize the possible disability first. 
So what training do teachers receive in recognizing learning disabilities? How does mcps determine if they are doing a good job of finding these students before their achievement is impacted?

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