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First, to fully understand the purpose of an ARD and how to prepare you need some important background. Congress thought an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for a child with a disability was too important to be developed by any one person. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulations require that the IEP be developed by a committee composed of, at a minimum, a teacher certified in the child’s area of disability, at least one regular education teacher (if the child is, or may be, in the regular education environment), an administrator (someone who can ensure that the services provided in the IEP will be provided), and the parent (which includes a guardian, a person acting as a parent of the child or a surrogate parent as appointed in accordance with law). In Texas these teams are called Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committees.

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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), also known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is indicated when children display inappropriate attention, hyperactivity, and impulsive behavior for their mental and chronological age. ADD/ADHD may first be recognized when the child enters school, but the symptoms are usually present at a much younger age.

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Preschool Children | Although children's growth patterns vary among individuals and within individuals, uneven development or significant delays in development can signal the presence of a learning disability. It is important to keep in mind that the behaviors listed below must persist over time to be considered warning signs. Any child may occasionally exhibit one or two of these behaviors in the course of normal development.

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The term "learning disability" describes a neurobiological disorder in which a person's brain works or is structured differently. These differences interfere with a person's ability to think and remember. Learning disabilities can affect a person's ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason, recall, organize information, and do mathematics.

Because learning disabilities cannot be seen, they often go undetected. Recognizing a learning disability is even more difficult because the severity and characteristics vary.

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I wanted to provide this resource for parents and their children. This will be an easy place for you to check and see how your child will score on the Exit Level TAKS Test for 11th and 12th grade students.

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October is here bringing with it cooler weather, changing leaves, and your children's progress reports. October is also Dyslexia Awareness Month, and with the school year still young but well under way, it is the perfect time to draw attention to and to clarify some of the underlying myths surrounding a syndrome which affects thousands of students.

Many people, including experts, erroneously diagnose dyslexia as a reading disorder characterized by letter scrambling and word reversal. However, dyslexia is a syndrome of many reading and non-reading symptoms of varying degrees. Some children may not even scramble letters when reading but have trouble with spelling and writing. Others may have difficulty keeping their place while reading or experience blurring, word movement, or fatigue. In other words, dyslexia is a complex combination of symptoms well beyond the typical “has trouble reading” tag-line.

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