[Georgia_ahead] National Joint Committee on Learning Report: The Documentation Disconnect for Students With Learning Disabilities: Improving Access to Postsecondary Disability Services

[Christopher Kinney]

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Chris Kinney

Assistive Technology Coordinator

Center for Disability Services

 

Georgia Perimeter College

555 North Indian Creek Drive

Clarkston, GA 30021

(678) 891-3385 Tel

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Dear AHEAD Members, 

As we get ready to convene in Charlotte for our Annual Conference, we
are pleased to announce that the National Joint Committee on Learning 
Disabilities (NJCLD) has just published a report entitled 

"The Documentation Disconnect for Students With Learning Disabilities:
Improving Access to Postsecondary Disability Services" (July, 2007).


This report has been endorsed by a majority of the organizations that
comprise the NJCLD. These organizations are: American-Speech-Hearing
Association, Association of Educational Therapists, AHEAD, Council for
Learning Disabilities, Division of Communicative Disorders and Deafness,
Division for Learning Disabilities, International Dyslexia Association,
Learning Disabilities Association of America, National Association of
African American Children With Learning Disabilities, National
Association of School Psychologists, National Center for Learning
Disabilities and Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. These
organizations serve over 400,000 constituents! 

This report has been in progress for a long time and AHEAD has had
substantial input. The report articulates the disconnect caused by the
differences in legislation that govern postsecondary and secondary
education, and the different purposes that documentation is used for.
The report is a call to action encouraging secondary and postsecondary
personnel to consider the serious issues surrounding documentation.
Concrete recommendations are made to support that effort. It is hoped
that the report will be used to start dialogs between all of the
entities that are responsible for documentation issues for students with
learning disabilities. The report will be disseminated widely through
the NJCLD. 

For most of the time that this report was being researched and written
Christy Lendman was one of AHEAD's representatives to the NJCLD. In the
spring of 2007 Peggy Hayeslip took her place. We encourage you to read
this report carefully and find ways to open a dialog at your local and
state meetings. As states do this we will let you know, so that you can
use that information in your own state. This report is only a start,
however it is critical that we consider the tenets that are articulated
here to do what we can to reduce the disconnect! We hope to have an
opportunity at AHEAD to talk about the report, so you may want to print
it out and bring it! You can access the full report online and for
download at: http://ahead.org/resources/njld_paper.php 
 
Sincerely yours, 

Lydia Block and Peggy Hayeslip 
AHEAD's Representatives to the NJCLD 
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