|

AUCD Community Inclusion

AUCD’s Community Inclusion Team supports the University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) Network in partnership with the Administration for Community Living.

Learn More
|

AUCD Maternal and Child Health Engagement

AUCD’s Maternal and Child Health Engagement supports the Autism CARES Programs, including LEND and DBP Programs.

Learn More
|

AUCD Public Health

AUCD’s Public Health Team works to create health promotion and public health efforts that include people with disabilities.

Learn More
|

AUCD Emerging Leaders Community

AUCD Emerging Leaders are a part of a community that includes trainees, early career professionals, self-advocates, and family members from AUCD member Centers and Programs.

Learn More

Donate

Project

Estimator 05-06

Center:

UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2006

Contact Information:

Richard Baer
[email protected]
435-797-7009

Project Description:

For many years the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) has developed and supported Estimator, a software program using Utah's formula to measure severe discrepancy when making learning disabilities qualification decisons. Proposed regulations to accommpany the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act would add reading fluency to the list of achievement areas students might show a severe discrepancy between intelligence and achievement in. The current project reviewed reading fluency tests and incorporated them into Estimator. The new program was shipped to Utah school districts and charter schools in early in 2006.

Keyword(s):

learning disabilities, assessment

Core Function(s):

Performing Technical Assistance and/or Training, Developing & Disseminating Information

Area of Emphasis

Education & Early Intervention

Target Audience:

Professionals and Para-Professionals

Unserved or Under-served Populations:

Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Limited English, Geographic Areas, Empowerment Zone, Reservation, Rural/Remote, Urban

Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:

State