The changing landscape of identifying students with learning disabilities: How a historically disproportionate practice is going away.  Since the advent of special education identification and support, students have been inadvertently over-identified for special education by race, income bracket and gender. Now the State of Washington has a 2028 timeline to replace the disproportionate procedure of identifying students with learning disabilities and replace it with a system of intervention that begins long before a disability is suspected.

Come join Jeffrey Niess, ESD 112’s Executive Director of Specialized Student Services and School Psychologist, for a presentation and discussion on how students are identified as learning disabled and what the state is soon requiring as the most effective and ethical way to see and serve students with learning challenges.