Adopted: 7/12/85
Amended: 9/27/90, 5/24/96, 1/24/97, 1/24/02
Reviewed:
In accordance with a program approved by the State Board of Education, enrolled students shall be tested for dyslexia and related disorders at appropriate times and any student determined to have dyslexia or a related disorder shall be provided with treatment.
Screening should be done only by individuals who are trained to assess students for dyslexia and related disorders. The School shall have a program for early identification, intervention, and support for students for students with dyslexia and related disorders. The School shall provide each identified student access at his or her campus to the services of a teacher trained in dyslexia and related disorders. The Board shall ensure that procedures for providing appropriate instructional services to such students are implemented in the School.
Before an identification or assessment procedure is used selectively with an individual student, the School shall notify the student's parent or guardian or another person standing in parental relation to the student.
The School shall inform parents and guardians of students eligible under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 (see FB) of all services and options available to the student under that statute.
The School may 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. Before any identification or assessment procedures are used selectively with an individual student, the School shall notify the student's parent, guardian, or other person standing in parental relation to the student.
The School may purchase a reading program or develop its own reading program. Teachers who screen and treat these students must be trained in instructional strategies that utilize individualized, intensive, multisensory, phonetic methods and a variety of writing and spelling components in the State Board dyslexia guidelines and in the professional development activities specified by the School-wide planning and decision-making committee.
Education Code 38.003; 19 TAC 74.28
Adopted: 7/12/85
Amended: 9/27/90, 5/24/96, 1/24/97, 1/24/02
Reviewed:
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