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Host: What are the criteria for diagnosing a learning disability?
Rene Hackney: The criteria for diagnosing a learning disability can vary again from school system to school system. But in general the guidelines are looking at the child's overall -- what's called a potential or an IQ score and looking for specific processing deficit, something like Visual Processing or Auditory Processing or Visual-Motor Integration, looking for what the pieces that might be causing difficulty for that student in the classroom as well as finding academic impact. Academic impact is a necessary part of looking at learning disabilities that there is both processing difficulty and the academics that are being impacted.
Expert: Rene Hackney
Originally a full-time preschool teacher, Dr. Rene Hackney now holds a Master?s in school psychology and a PhD. in developmental psychology from George Mason University. She trained at the Developmental Clinic at Children?s National Medical Center and for the public schools, teaching in parenting programs at each. She has also acted as a consultant to several area preschools.For the last four years, Dr. Hackney has More »
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In this video, parenting educator Dr. Rene Hackney provides information about the categories of special education, the process for evaluations and options for providing these services. This includes the criteria More »
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