A recent study shows that many schools have observed a decline in enrollment of learning disabled students from recent years. To my understanding, a student with a potential learning disability is evaluated and observed by a teacher and then is assessed by a counselor and is labeled with having a disability when one is found.
A statistic that surprised me was that ~80% of students that get that label is because they simply struggle with reading at a certain grade level, and may have not learned in previous years.
In response to this statistic, I believe many of these students were not properly evaluated because it's not a fair situation to the student to label them for possibly not being quick to learn something that may have been assumed to be learned in past years. I also believe that when a student struggles with reading, we as educators must act quickly and not just see these kids as some lost cause, but to give extra attention to them and find appropriate resources to get them up on track for their grade level.
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