The aim of the present study was to investigate the realities of identification process for
elementary school students with learning disabilities(LD), and the difficulties that teachers in charge
of the process experienced. Thirty teachers from 15 elementary schools and 15 special education
support centers participated for the study. The instruments used to gather data for the study were
two kind of surveys. The main results were as follows. First, achievement tests made by the schools
were used most as the screening test tools and criterion for the screening was various. Second,
two-third of teachers used 3 months as the period to check response to intervention that was
required in the guidelines, but the intervention time for the students was less than 5 hours per
week in the most cases. Third, the evaluation for achievement progress during the intervention was
practiced three times most, but the criterion of progress evaluation was varied according to teachers.
Fourth, two IQ tests for the diagnosis of LD that was required in the guidelines were used generally
in the special education support centers, but various IQ scores ranged from 60 to 95 were applied
to identify LD. Fifth, three academic achievement tests were used to evaluate student's ability, and
discrepancy criterion used mostly was grade-level deviation. Many problems and difficulties in the
practice of the identification process were pointed out and suggestions to solve them have been
discussed, too.