Our Goals
We will achieve our mission through five overall goals. Through these goals, we will increase access to, and use of, evidence-based approaches to screen, identify, and teach students with literacy-related disabilities, including dyslexia. We will also build individual and organizational capacity to assess students’ literacy-related skill, identify students with disabilities or those at risk of disabilities, and fully implement evidence-based literacy programs and professional development.
Goal 1 
Identify or develop free or low-cost evidence-based assessment tools for identifying students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities
Goal 2 
Identify evidence-based literacy instruction, strategies, and accommodations, including assistive technology, designed to meet the specific needs of students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities
Goal 3 
Provide families of students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities information to assist such students
Goal 4 
Identify or develop evidence-based professional development for teachers, paraprofessionals, principals, other school leaders, and specialized instructional support personnel
Goal 5 
Disseminate the products to regionally diverse SEAs, REAs, LEAs, and schools
The research reported here is funded by awards to the National Center on Improving Literacy from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs (Award #: S283D160003). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of OESE, OSEP, or the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright © 2023 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://improvingliterarcy.org
