Miami Trace Elementary• 1,110 students• Grades PreK- 5th • Number of Students on IEP

– PreK: 8– K: 7– 1st: 15– 2nd: 24– 3rd: 24– 4th: 38– 5th: 31

• 8.9% ethnically diverse

IDEA’s Definition of SLD:

• A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language

• May manifest itself in an imperfect ability to:– Listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do math

• Does not include learning problems that are the result of other disabilities or environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage

ODE’s Definition of Learning Disability:

a. General. “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, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations,

including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain

dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.

Response to InterventionTier 1

• Instruction from the Core Curriculum– Scott Foresman Reading and Math– “Light” Research-Backed Interventions

• 2x/week– PALS– Otter Creek – Repeated Reading

Response to InterventionTier 2

• Small Group Differentiated Instruction – Below Leveled Readers– Targeted Strategies from the Reading Core– Math computation 2-3x/week

Response to InterventionTier 3

• My Sidewalks– 5 days/week, 30 minutes/day

• Lexia– 5 days/week, 20 minutes/day

Tier 3 must be implemented for 6 weeks with fidelity, progress monitored with support and evaluated at the end of this 6 weeks.

Progress monitoring must be data based, i.e. STEPS

References

• http://www.uwsp.edu/Education/lbardon/LD.htm

• http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=968&ContentID=28143&Content=84085