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Documentation for Learning Disabilities must be submitted by a licensed professional, such as a clinical psychologist, neuropsychologist, psychiatrist, or other relevantly trained medical doctor who has undergone comprehensive training and has relevant experience in differential diagnosis and the full range of psychiatric disorders.
Your doctor or diagnostician must submit:
- A psycho-educational evaluation report that was completed within the last three years.
The report should include:
- A diagnostic statement specifying that the student has a learning disability
- A complete intellectual assessment with all sub-tests and standard scores
- A comprehensive academic achievement battery with all sub-tests and standard scores, including current levels of academic functioning in relevant areas such as reading (decoding and comprehension), mathematics, and written and oral language.
- An explanation of how the test scores were used to arrive at the diagnosis of a learning disability in reading, math, written language, etc.
- Recommendations regarding the academic services and accommodations that would be beneficial to the student. Suggested accommodations or services based on the current level of functioning.
We accept the following tests (the list is not exclusive):
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-III)
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test (WAIS-III)
- Differential Ability Scales (DAS)
- Kaufman Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT)
- Woodsock-Johnson Tests of Achievement – Revised (WJ-R)
- Woodsock-Johnson Tests of Achievement - III (WJ-III)
- Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT)
We do not accept the following tests as a stand alone measure of Intelligence of Academic Achievement:
- Wide Range Achievement Test – Revised (WRAT-R)
- Diagnostic Achievement Battery (DAB)
- Diagnostic Achievement Test for Adolescents – 2
- Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI)
- Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT)
- Nelson Denny
