Michigan Branch
International Dyslexia Association
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Email info@idamichigan.org
Phone (1-888-IDAMICH)
if you have questions and concerns about someone's reading situation.
Download this list of IDA members who either tutor or evaluate dyslexic students.
If you have had a good experience with a service provider who is not on our list, please let us know by emailing us.
This is the Michigan Regulation which covers dyslexia:
Michigan Regulation
R 340.1713 "Specific learning disability" defined; determination.
Rule 13. (1) "Specific learning disability"
means a disorder in 1 or more of the basic psychological processes involved
in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest
itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell,
or to do
mathematical calculations. The term includes such conditions as perceptual
impairments, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia,
and developmental aphasia. The term does not
include children who have learning problems that are primarily the result
of a visual, hearing, or motor impairment, of a cognitive impairment,
of an emotional impairment, of autism, or of environmental, cultural,
or economic disadvantage.
(2) The individualized education program team may determine
that a child has a specific learning disability if the child does not
achieve commensurate with his or her age and ability levels in 1 or more
of the areas listed in this subrule, when provided with learning experiences
appropriate for the child's age and ability levels, and if the multidisciplinary
evaluation team finds that a child has a severe discrepancy between achievement
and intellectual ability in 1 or more of the following areas:
(a) Oral expression.
(b) Listening comprehension.
(c) Written expression.
(d) Basic reading skill.
(e) Reading comprehension.
(f) Mathematics calculation.
(g) Mathematics reasoning.
