The guidelines are designed to help Oklahoma school administrators, counselors, teachers, and parents better understand learning disabilities. Following an excerpt from the Federal Register regarding evaluation of learning disabled (LD) students, the following three topics are addressed: (1) the referral process (pre-refereal and formal referral); (2) identification procedures (evaluation team members, exclusionary factors in evaluation, classroom observation, written reports, and eligibility team summaries); and (3) program development, which includes the Individualized Education Program (IEP) team, IEP development, placement options, facilities, teaching strategies, scheduling, curriculum models, grading, materials, elementary and secondary curriculum models, discipline, and exit criteria. (CL)