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Title: Children with Developmental Language Disorder will Benefit from New IDEA Guidance
Speech-language pathologists are familiar with eligibility criteria for school-based special education services under IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. In order for children with speech and language disorders to be eligible for services, they need to fit one of the thirteen categories of disabilities. However, these 13 categories do not always align well with current evidence-based diagnoses of neurodiverse conditions. It is because of these challenges that we, as members of the National Artificial Intelligence Institute for Exceptional Education, are particularly grateful to the US Department of Education's Office of Special Education programs for issuing new guidance on the use of DLD to accurately describe the speech and language needs of individual children, no matter what eligibility category they fall into. We are also grateful to members and leaders of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for their strong advocacy to raise the community's awareness of this new guidance. Therefore, our Institute will be another strong advocate for children with DLD so that they can eventually benefit from our Institute's research. We believe that the recognition of DLD as a disability can greatly help these children and their families.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2229873
PAR ID:
10542743
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
PsyArxiv
Date Published:
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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