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Breakdown of due process claims for autism and learning disabilities
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Liz Vladek provides a detailed breakdown of due process claims for students with autism and learning disabilities (including dyslexia) over the past three school years.
- Dyslexia is not a separate disability classification on IEPs or IESPs, but falls under learning disabilities
- School year 2021-2022: 1,827 claims for autism, 1,286 for learning disabilities
- School year 2022-2023: 2,090 claims for autism, 1,271 for learning disabilities
- School year 2023-2024: 2,067 claims for autism, 1,450 for learning disabilities
- These numbers include some public school cases, not only tuition issues
Liz Vladek
4:22:36
Yes, I just want to correct that point.
4:22:41
So when we talk about the majority of due process claims, we are still talking about these IESP cases, but with that point clarified, let me share the following.
4:22:54
I'm gonna offer numbers that break down autism and dyslexia claims in the IEP case and then in the IESP case.
4:23:04
So first I just do want to note that, and I believe this is a matter of state law, colleagues can correct me if I've got that wrong, but Dyslexia is actually not a disability classification that we're able to enter into an IEP or IESP.
4:23:22
And so instead when a student has dyslexia that will show up in their IEP or IESP as a learning disability.
4:23:31
And so in school year '22 we had eighteen twenty seven students who filed due process claims with an autism diagnosis.
4:23:46
We had twelve eighty six students who filed with a learning disability.
4:23:51
So that includes but probably is not exclusive to dyslexia.
4:23:56
In 2023, school year '23, it was two thousand and ninety students filing DPCs with an autism diagnosis for an IEP and twelve seventy one with a learning disability in the IEP case.
4:24:14
And then in last school year we had 2,067 students file a due process claim where they had an autism diagnosis on an IEP and fourteen fifty with a learning disability diagnosis on their IEP.
4:24:31
I do just want to make this note that when we are strictly talking about this diagnosis, these due process cases for IEPs do include some public school cases.
4:24:42
These are not only cases where we've got a tuition issue.
Rita Joseph
4:24:47
Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask.
Monique Scales
4:24:49
Yep.
Rita Joseph
4:24:49
You'll share all of that information Absolutely.