Specific Learning Disability Identification

Site:	Colorado Education Learning Management System
Course:	Guest Access-Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties
Book:	Specific Learning Disability Identification

Printed by:	Guest user
Date:	Thursday, 8 May 2025, 10:36 PM

Description

This module is comprised of one session

After viewing this module session participants will be able to:

Identify the key factors that may distinguish between a student with an SLD in reading vs. milder reading difficulties

Watch the session below.

*Please see the Transcripts resource folder located in Module 0 for a text copy of the transcript from this video.

Reading skills fall along a continuum with no natural cut off to signal a “disability”
Use of best practices to prevent and intervene in reading is not common, complicating the validity of identifying SLD in reading
The number of underlying skills that are deficient and the severity of those skill deficits can help inform the identification process
Clinical judgment will be needed, but more informed judgment should lead to more valid identification

What are the key factors that may suggest that a student has an SLD in reading?