Specific Learning Disability (SLD)

Contact – Deborah Dominguez-Clark Deborah.Clark@ped.nm.gov or your EA EA/LEA assignments

Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. Specific learning disability does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of intellectual disability, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage. (34 CFR Sec. 300.8(c)(10)).

Resources

International Dyslexia Association

www.interdys.org

LD Online

http://www.ldonline.org/

Learning Disabilities Association of America

https://ldaamerica.org/

National Research Center on Learning Disabilities

http://www.ncld.org/

National Center on Student Progress Monitoring

www.studentprogress.org

Portland Public Schools Identification of Specific Learning Disabilities via Patterns of Strengths and Weaknesses Manual

http://www.pps.net/cms/lib8/OR01913224/Centricity/Domain/178/PPS%20PSW%20Manual.pdf

Southwest International Dyslexia Association (SWIDA)

505-255-8234
https://sw.dyslexiaida.org/