(1) When provided learning experiences appropriate to the student's age and
ability levels, the student's rate of achievement relative to the student's
age and ability levels remains below expectations and the student does
not achieve commensurate with his or her age and ability levels in one or
more of the areas listed (1) (b).    Yes       No

(1) (b) The student has a severe discrepancy between intellectual ability and
academic achievement in one or more of the following areas:

Yes     No   oral expression                       Yes    No    listening comprehension
Yes     No   written expression                 Yes    No    basic reading skill
Yes     No   reading comprehension           Yes    No    mathematics calculation
Yes     No   mathematics reasoning
Yes     No   The severe discrepancy between ability and achievement is not
                   correctable without special education and related services.

Written documentation supports that:

Yes   No   The student has had opportunities to learn commensurate with the
                 student's age and abilities;

Yes   No   At least two intervention techniques have been tried in the regular
                 classroom and the student's ability remains severely affected; and

Yes   No   Educationally relevant medical findings, if any, have been
                 considered.

EXCLUSIONARY FACTORS:

The student may not be identified as having a specific learning disability if the
severe discrepancy between ability and achievement is primarily due to visual
impairment, hearing impairment, orthopedic impairment, cognitive delay or
emotional disturbance.

When standardized test instruments do not provide valid assessment results for
determining the two standard deviation discrepancy, any alternative assessment
procedure utilized shall determine that a discrepancy between ability and
achievement exists at a level of severity similar to a two standard deviation
discrepancy. In making this judgment, the child study team shall document the
basis for concluding that standardized test instruments, when applied to this
student are not valid and verify with specific examples that the student's ability
to learn in the regular education setting in one or more of the areas listed in
(1)(b) remains severely affected even when classroom interventions are
applied.
 

DEFINITIONS:

A severe discrepancy is defined as a 50 percent or higher probability of a two
standard deviation discrepancy between general cognitive ability and
achievement in one or more of the areas identified in (1) when adjusted for
regression to the mean. Error in test measurement requires judgment for
students who score near two standard deviations below the population mean.
 

Student Name: _________________ CST Date: __________