The six documents below were prepared at the request of the Department of Education as a follow-up to the LD Summit held in 2001. DCDD is a member of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities and developed these position papers. Please feel free to comment to the LLD chair regarding their content. The documents relate to the following issues identified at the Learning Disabilities Roundtable meeting on October 1, 2001:

1. Nature of Learning Disabilities: Definition
2. Nature of Learning Disabilities: Overidentification, misclassification, and lifespan
3. Identification/ Eligibility
4. Eligibility Criteria: Discrepancy
5. Intervention