Dyslexia
Difficulty with learning to spell, reading real words in isolation, and slow inaccurate labored reading are all these types of charctertistics.
What are Primary Charcteristics of Dyslexia?
An Adminatrator, an ESL teacher, the LPAC facilitator, the Parent Representative, and occasionally the ARD Representative are required members of this committee.
What is the LPAC Committee?
ALL EL students failing a core class must have the teacher of record fill out this each grading period.
What is the Monitoring Feedback Form?
This is a neurologically based written language disorder.
What is Dysgraphia?
This requires all staff and administrators to have the responsibility of ensuring that all students with disabilities are identified, evaluated, and provided with needed accommodations and services, resulting in FAPE.
What is the law?
Motor control, listening, and writing are these types of consequences of dyslexia.
What are secondary consequences of dyslexia?
The state of Texas will be using a new test used for identfication of LEPs called this.
What is LAS Links?
With a prior year TELPAS composite score of Beginner or Intermediate, these are filled out by the teacher three times a year used to inform the LPAC in making TELPAS and STAAR accommodation decisions in the spring.
What are EL Instructional Accommodations?
Dysgraphia affects these four areas of written expression.
What are Handwriting, Writing Fluency, Written Spelling, and Written Expression?
You must have these to be eligible under Section 504.
What are having a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; or have a record of such an impairment; or be regarded as having such an impairment?
Primary characteristics of dyslexia, difficulties in the areas of phonological processing, and an unexpectedness in the student’s difficulties in reading and spelling are all appropriate questions to answer YES when identifying this.
What is dyslexia?
If a student enrolls with records from another Texas school district, the LPAC must place the student according to the latest LPAC recommendation with parent approval for program participation and also do this.
What is honor and continue previous district's placement decisions?
In the case of TELPAS scores this school year, students must be be at this level in all four domains to be considered for reclassification.
What is Advanced High?
This age group has difficulty with syntax structure and grammar.
Who are teenagers?
In PfISD, §504 evaluations are conducted this many times to determine continued eligibility and need for accommodations/services.
What is annually?
Oral reading fluency, spelling, and phonological/phonemic awareness are examples of this.
Dyslexia instruction
Students not previously identified as LEP or who are enrolling without school records, must be placed in this setting.
What is the most appropriate setting, pending language testing and the LPAC meeting?
Dyslexia Data Collection for English Language Learners must indicate a deficiency in this.
What is the dominant language?
You may be suffering from secondary consequences of dysgraphia if you exhibit handwriting issues in this area.
What are Fine Motor Skills?
The student’s current grades and current attendance record, a list of difficulties the student currently exhibits due to disability, a list of accommodations student routinely needs, anecdotal records/observation data, and documentation of delivery of accommodations are all brought by this committee member.
Who is the teacher?
These do not lower expectations, or change how the student produces work. They are determined by individual student need.
What are Dyslexia Accommodations?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Students for whom the LPAC recommends these three on any reading or writing assessment may not be considered for exit at the end of the school year.
A. BOY, MOY, EOY Instructional Accommodations
B.Oral Administration, Content & Language Supports and Extra Time
C. Reading, Listening, and Writing Domains
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
At the end of the year when the LPAC takes all information into consideration in order to make the final recommendation regarding a student’s readiness to exit the ESL program, teachers will complete a form for students who meet this criteria.
A. Reconstitution Criteria
B. Exit criteria
C. Reclassification Criteria
Students that are not able to fully process visual information as they are placing it on the page show a weakness in this area.
What is Visual Processing?
Following and implementing a student’s 504 plan, completing feedback forms, attend 504 meetings and provide relevant input, sign receipts of Student Accommodations; provide work and assignments to GEH teacher for students receiving GEH services, and keeping student's accommodations/plan confidential and secure are required duties perfomred by this person.
Who is the teacher?