EHB (Legal) Dyslexia and Related Disorders
The Board shall ensure that procedures are implemented for identifying and providing appropriate instructional services to students for dyslexia and related disorders, in accordance with the State Board of Education’s Dyslexia Handbook: Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders.
IDENTIFICATION AND TESTING
Screening should be done only by individuals who are trained to assess students for dyslexia and related disorders.
Before an identification or assessment procedure is used selectively with an individual student, the District shall notify the student’s parent or guardian or another person standing in parental relation to the student.
A process for early identification, intervention, and support for students at risk for dyslexia and related disorders must be available, as outlined in the Dyslexia Handbook.
TREATMENT
Each school shall provide each identified student access at his or her campus to instructional programs required at READING PROGRAM below and to the services of a teacher trained in dyslexia and related disorders. The District may, with the approval of each student’s parents or guardians, offer additional services at a centralized location, but centralized services shall not preclude each student from receiving services at his or her campus.
READING PROGRAM
The District shall purchase a reading program or develop its own reading program that is aligned with the descriptors in the Dyslexia Handbook.
Teachers who screen and treat these students must be trained in instructional strategies that utilize individualized, intensive, multi-sensory, phonetic methods and a variety of writing and spelling components described in the Dyslexia Handbook. The professional development activities specified by the District- and/or campus-level committees shall include these instructional strategies.
Reassessment
Unless otherwise provided by law, a student determined to have dyslexia during testing or accommodated because of dyslexia may not be retested for dyslexia for the purpose of reassessing the student’s need for accommodations until the District reevaluates the information obtained from previous testing of the student.
NOTICE TO PARENTS
The District shall inform parents and guardians of students eligible under Section 504 [see FB] of all services and options available to the student under that statute.
PARENT EDUCATION
The District shall provide a parent education program for parents and guardians of students with dyslexia and related disorders. This program should include awareness of characteristics of dyslexia and related disorders; information on testing and diagnosis of dyslexia; information on effective strategies for teaching dyslexic students; and awareness of information on modifications, especially modifications allowed on standardized testing.
Education Code 38.003; 19 TAC 74.28
The Board shall ensure that procedures are implemented for identifying and providing appropriate instructional services to students for dyslexia and related disorders, in accordance with the State Board of Education’s Dyslexia Handbook: Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders.
IDENTIFICATION AND TESTING
Screening should be done only by individuals who are trained to assess students for dyslexia and related disorders.
Before an identification or assessment procedure is used selectively with an individual student, the District shall notify the student’s parent or guardian or another person standing in parental relation to the student.
A process for early identification, intervention, and support for students at risk for dyslexia and related disorders must be available, as outlined in the Dyslexia Handbook.
TREATMENT
Each school shall provide each identified student access at his or her campus to instructional programs required at READING PROGRAM below and to the services of a teacher trained in dyslexia and related disorders. The District may, with the approval of each student’s parents or guardians, offer additional services at a centralized location, but centralized services shall not preclude each student from receiving services at his or her campus.
READING PROGRAM
The District shall purchase a reading program or develop its own reading program that is aligned with the descriptors in the Dyslexia Handbook.
Teachers who screen and treat these students must be trained in instructional strategies that utilize individualized, intensive, multi-sensory, phonetic methods and a variety of writing and spelling components described in the Dyslexia Handbook. The professional development activities specified by the District- and/or campus-level committees shall include these instructional strategies.
Reassessment
Unless otherwise provided by law, a student determined to have dyslexia during testing or accommodated because of dyslexia may not be retested for dyslexia for the purpose of reassessing the student’s need for accommodations until the District reevaluates the information obtained from previous testing of the student.
NOTICE TO PARENTS
The District shall inform parents and guardians of students eligible under Section 504 [see FB] of all services and options available to the student under that statute.
PARENT EDUCATION
The District shall provide a parent education program for parents and guardians of students with dyslexia and related disorders. This program should include awareness of characteristics of dyslexia and related disorders; information on testing and diagnosis of dyslexia; information on effective strategies for teaching dyslexic students; and awareness of information on modifications, especially modifications allowed on standardized testing.
Education Code 38.003; 19 TAC 74.28