Where Law, Policy, and Practice Collide

A diagnostician's read on Togut & Nix (2012) — the structural collision between RTI and Child Find, why "wait to fail" survived 2004, and how Texas's convergent evidence framework gives diagnosticians something more defensible than what most states landed on.

A practitioner-level guide to specific learning disability identification under TAC §89.1040 — covering Scarborough's Reading Rope, all three eligibility approaches, the seven SLD domains, exclusionary factors, and what data convergence actually looks like in practice.