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Current U.S. federal special education policy under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) allows states to define their own criteria to identify young children with nonspecific delays for special education using the disability category option of developmen…

Environmental fluctuations are ubiquitous in nature and can serve to drive phenotypic differences among individuals in an environment-specific manner, a phenomenon known as phenotypic plasticity. Phenotypic plasticity can have implications for an organism’s fitness. Here, I addr…