Students requesting accommodations based on a diagnosis of a learning disability are required to submit documentation that must include a comprehensive psycho-educational evaluation conducted by a licensed or credentialed professional. The diagnostician must be an impartial individual who is not a family member of the student.
The evaluation should be within the past three years, include data from the adult scale, reflect current functional impacts on major life function, and include a clearly stated diagnosis. The report must include a full narrative discussion listing and interpreting all test scores with evidence of statistically significant discrepancies. All recommended accommodations must be clearly linked to the test data with a discussion of each. A list of all current or past accommodations utilized must also be included.
The evaluation must include at least one measure from each of the following categories:
1. A measure of Intellectual Ability or Cognitive Functioning. Examples of such measures include
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS III)
- Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery
2. A measure of achievement in reading comprehension, written language, and/or mathematics, which demonstrates a significant impairment. Examples of such measures include
- Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-R: Tests of Achievement
- Test of Written Language-3 (TOWL)
- Nelson-Denny Reading Test
- Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-R
- Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test-3rd Edition
3. A measure of Information Processing in one or more of the following areas that demonstrates a significant impairment
- Visual and/or auditory processing
- Processing speed (other than the Nelson-Denny Reading Rate)
- Other cognitive measures which are related to the disability
- Attention and concentration
- Perceptual motor skills
- Memory