Being Prepared

Many parents find it helpful to write a letter to their IEP team prior to the meeting. This is an opportunity for your school team to learn about your hopes for and concerns about your child. It also helps the team prepare to address your needs before the meeting.

Upon completion of this section, you will:

• Know that goal-setting should be based on targeted behaviors, pinpointed by your child’s evaluation and testing
• Have learned what target behaviors are, and how to select them

To begin therapy, the clinician (e.g., speech-language pathologist, reading specialist, learning disabiliti

Upon completion of this section, you will:

• Be able to identify behaviors that may indicate that you have dyslexia or a language-based learning disability
• Understand the importance of both the presence of the behaviors, and their occurrence patterns

Identify and understand typical behaviors of dyslexia

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