Support the systems-level coordination of schoolwide reading efforts designed to meet the needs of all learners, including students with or at risk for literacy-related outcomes.
Building capacity related to implementation of a universal screening process to identify students at risk for reading difficulties, including dyslexia.
Supporting school systems to effectively teach essential literacy content to all students, including students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities.
Intensification of instruction and intervention to comprehensively support the individual needs of students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities.
Use of Response to Intervention in reading to determine special education eligibility in schools that use a multi-tiered systems of support approach.
Liaisons
Our liaisons provide technical assistance to Regional Comprehensive Center (RCC) staff so they may better assist SEAs in developing and implementing state and local structures, procedures and policies to address student challenges in learning to read and write.
- Sarah Sayko: Regions 1-9, the National Comprehensive Center
- Brian Gearin: Regions 10-19
Dyslexia is a brain-based learning disability that specifically impairs a person’s ability to read.
Expert: Jack Fletcher, Ph.D.
Assessment is a process of collecting information. Screening is an assessment process that helps teachers identify students who are at risk for not meeting grade-level learning goals.
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Find links to Oregon's dyslexia screening plan, the Oregon Dyslexia Advisory Council, and OSEP guidance letters.
Topic: Dyslexia
A webinar on making evidence-based decisions about instruction and interventions within a framework of a multi-tiered system of support. This webinar was a collaborative effort between the American Institutes for Research, the National Center for Systemic Improvement and the CEEDAR Center.
Topic: Evidence-based, Interventions
Find resources related to specific disabilities for Virginia schools.
Topic: Dyslexia
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The understanding that what is read is linked to the words on the page, rather than to the pictures.
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 © 2021 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://improvingliterarcy.org
