How Do Special Ed. Teachers Determine If a Student Has a Learning Disability or Just Doesn't Care About Academics?

Pretty much the title.

I read about a student who hated math. He didn't do the homework and didn't pay attention in class because he didn't see the value of math. Because of this he was assigned an IEP. Yet when he tried to learn math and do well on tests he did average. In spite of this he had been diagnosed with ADHD (in about 2005). Purportedly he had no trouble standing in a line for 8 hours while waiting to go to some event he was interested in.

Thus I'm left wondering- How Do Special Ed. Teachers Determine If a Student Has a Learning Disability or is simply disinterested?

Submitted December 23, 2019 at 02:58PM by J0E_Blow https://ift.tt/2ENWZxz