FYI, I attended a Wrightslaw seminar yesterday. After hearing in many contexts that dyslexia was not recognized under IDEA, I was surprised to learn that dyslexia is included explicitly in the list of specific learning disabilities and has been since the 1970s. The definition of "dyslexia" is somewhat vague since it is based on 1970s terminology. The book includes a footnote stating dyslexia is "a language learning disability in reading, writing, spelling, and/or math. From a legal perspective, dyslexia is a learning disability that adversely affects education performance." He does not give a citation for this interpretation.
