South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 24 - EDUCATION
Article 24:05 - Special education
Chapter 24:05:24.01 - Eligibility criteria
Section 24:05:24.01:22 - Criteria for articulation disorder
Current through Register Vol. 51, page 43, September 23, 2024
A student may be identified as having an articulation disorder if one of the following criteria exist:
(1) Performance on a standardized articulation test falls two standard deviations below the mean and intelligibility is affected in conversation;
(2) Test performance is less than two standard deviations below the mean but the student is judged unintelligible by the speech and language clinician and one other adult;
(3) Performance on a phonological assessment falls in the profound or severe range and intelligibility is affected in conversation;
(4) Performance on a phonological assessment falls in the moderate range, intelligibility is affected in conversation, and during a tracking period of between three and six months there was a lack of improvement in the number and type of errors; or
(5) An error persists six months to one year beyond the chronological age when 90 percent of students have typically acquired the sound based on developmental articulation norms.
General Authority: SDCL 13-37-1.1.
Law Implemented: SDCL 13-37-1.1.
