The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of ...

[robinn137]

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (PL 108-446):
 
  a. retained the severe discrepancy between achievement and disability as the only criteria for identifying learning disabilities.
  b. permits states and local school districts to use response-to-intervention to identify an individual for a possible learning disability.
  c. requires states and local school districts to use response-to-intervention to identify an individual for a possible learning disability.
  d. stipulated that a a severe discrepancy means two years or more below expected performance levels in one academic area for the identification of a learning disability.

Question 2

PL 94-142 and its reauthorization as IDEA describe all of the following elements in the definition of a specific learning disability, EXCEPT:
 
  a. a disorder in basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language.
  b. a disorder that manifests itself in an imperfect ability to react appropriately in social situations.
  c. includes conditions such as brain injury and minimal brain dysfunction.
  d. does not include children whose learning disability is primarily the result of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.

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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: b

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