Dyslexia
The La Feria ISD serves identified and eligible students with appropriate classroom accommodations and/or, if indicated, placement in the district’s supplemental services dyslexia lab. Labs are provided at each campus. The supplemental services used in this district include Esperanza, Scottish Rite and Scottish Rite Literacy Program, and Learning Ally. These programs are individualized, intensive, utilize multi-sensory teaching methods, contain writing and spelling components and meet the state required descriptors. In addition, the student will be provided appropriate instructional strategies including accommodations/interventions to be utilized throughout the school day that meet the state required descriptors as outlined in TEA‟s The Dyslexia Handbook - Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders. (Manual Sobre La Dislexia )
Resources
The Dyslexia Handbook
Dyslexia Brochure English
Dyslexia Brochure Espanol
Section 504 Coordinator
Should you have any questions regarding 504 or Dyslexia, please contact Mrs. Lillian Ramos at 956-797-8500. For RTI, please contact Mrs. Maria Rodriguez, Special Populations Director at 797-8340.
Response to Intervention
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Section 504 Frequently Asked Questions
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La Feria Independent School District
routinely (1) screens all students and (2) reviews the records of all
students to measure their achievement compared to their same grade-level
peers and statewide standards. The La Feria Independent School
District believes in providing interventions to students who are not
meeting the standards necessary for a successful completion of a high
school diploma. Children are unique with individual learning styles and
different responses to the materials used in the classroom. All
children learn at different rates.
In order to provide the most
effective education for ALL children, we believe we must start with
providing an effective education for EACH child. At La Feria
Independent School District, we utilize a four (4) tiered approach with
varying levels of support beyond that used in the regular curriculum.
This approach is known as the Response to Intervention process.
Response to Intervention uses a problem-solving process to review
students’ progress and needs as well as an integrated approach to the
delivery of instruction for all students and matching the needs of your
child with appropriate interventions.
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Parent Guide to 504
Parent Guide to 504 in English
Guia de 504 Para Padres |
Question 1:
What is Section 504?
Answer:
Section 504 is a part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that prohibits discrimination based upon disability.
Section 504 is an anti-discrimination, civil rights statute that requires the needs of students with
disabilities to be met as adequately as the needs of the non-disabled are met.
Question 2:
Who is covered under Section 504?
Answer:
To be covered under Section 504, a student must be
“qualified” (which roughly equates to being between 3 and 22 years of
age, depending on the program, as well as state and federal law, and
must have a disability). [34 C.F.R. §104.3(k)(2)].
Question 3:
Who is an “individual with a disability”?
Answer:
As defined by federal law:
“An individual with a disability means any person who: (i) has a mental or physical impairment
that substantially limits one or more major life activity; (ii) has a record of such an impairment;
or (iii) is regarded as having such an impairment.” [34 C.F.R. §104.3(j)(1)].
Section 504 states that:
“No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States, as defined in section
706(8) of this title, shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program
or activity receiving Federal financial assistance...” [29 U.S.C. §794(a), 34 C.F.R. §104.4(a)].
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