REPRESENTING STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
The delay in identifying students with learning disabilities has prevented the majority of these students from ever closing the achievement gap with their classmates and placed them in the situation where they have to constantly struggle in school and struggle with homework. This has resulted from the use of the old IQ-Discrepancy criteria AKA "the wait to fail" test. For students with dyslexia, a reading disability, a majority of the students are not identified until at least the third grade.
It is not surprising that in Michigan 24% of the students with learning disabilities drop out of school before graduation. These students with average or high intelligence have a learning disability. Attorney David Boies and financial wizard Charles Schwab are only two of the many prominent Americans with dyslexia.
I can help by insisting that school districts use what is called the Response to Scientific Research Based Intervention (RtI) and do an appropriate and complete evaluation of the student as required by the new federal regulations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2004.
Special education students with dyslexia have a right under IDEA 2004 to be taught using reading programs that are based on peer reviewed research. I can help the parent to get an appropriate reading program for their child that is based on peer reviewed research.
Many students with dyslexia in upper elementary, middle school, and high school have reading levels that are far behind their classmates, and they struggle to read the text in regular education classes. These students need a reading program based on peer reviewed research to close the gap with their classmates, and they need textbooks in regular education that are written at their reading level. I can help the parents at the Individualized Education Program (IEP)Team meeting to obtain for their child a reading program in school that is based on peer reviewed research. I can help the parents to obtain accommodations, such as textbooks written at their child's reading level, and adequate special education support for their child in the regular education classroom.
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From locations in Detroit and Royal Oak, Michigan, the Law Office of Sidney Kraizman represents clients across Michigan in communities such as Livonia, Plymouth, Mount Clemens, Troy, Ann Arbor, Warren, Shelby Township, Brighton, Lansing, Grosse Pointe, Birmingham, West Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, Farmington Hills, Rochester Hills and Okemos, as well as throughout Oakland County, Wayne County, Macomb County, Monroe County, Livingston County, Washtenaw County, and Ingham County.