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How to Evaluate SLD: My Top 3 Go-To Resources

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Specific Learning Disability evaluations are rarely about one test score or one neat table in a report. In this episode, I’m sharing three resources that help me build stronger, more defensible evaluations: essentials books, ecological validity, and intervention data.

I explain how each resource supports better decision-making, from translating complex processing terms into parent-friendly language to checking whether standardized scores match what teachers, parents, and students are seeing in real life.

Together, these tools help us move beyond isolated data points and create a clearer, more complete picture of the student.

Resources:

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Episode Highlights

(01:31) – Why SLD remains one of my favorite eligibility areas

(02:19) – How essentials books strengthen your interpretation

(04:39) – What ecological validity actually means

(06:22) – Why one test score should never tell the whole story

(07:31) – How intervention data sharpens eligibility decisions

(09:32) – What to do when intervention data is missing

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