So if you’ve read my About and my other blog post you know I am interested in researching and reading about all things LD ADD ETC (gifted education)  special education Autism & other special needs developmental delays and the like. I find them very  fascinating and interesting.To be honest with you I can’t understand why someone wouldn’t be. I follow and like many blogs and web pages on facebook and on line about them.Anything that can fall under those subjects are the main things I read about.With the exception of crafting and Art . I don’t find myself reading much fiction anymore.I was part of an online discussion about Special Education yesterday.A single working mom asked a question about IEPs and 504s. During the discussion comments were made about how most school districts don’t recognise Dyslexia as a learning disability even though IDEA 2004 states Dyslexia as a SPD specific learning disability and that students with a diagnoses of Dyslexia have a diagnoses of a SLD. Repetitive I know.This is my concern revisions are being made to the DSM 5. This past December my husband read an article in the news paper that said Dyslexia would still be listed as a SLD in the revised DSM5 I’ve read otherwise on the internet recently.I don’t know what to beleive.From what I’ve read the final new revised DSM5 will come out in May of this year. What will it all mean for students with Dyslexia and their families? Will the IEP process change? Will 504’s be an option that districts won’t avoid giving to students who don’t qualify for an IEP due to there not being a large enough discrepancy to meet the out dated discrepancy formula?
We shall see.What I do know is that no matter what the changes come to be to the DSM 5 they will effect a lot of students and their families.