Supporting school systems to effectively teach essential literacy content to all students, including students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities.
Building capacity related to implementation of a universal screening process to identify students at risk for reading difficulties, including dyslexia.
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
This toolkit helps parents and educators learn about dyslexia and how to support the literacy development of students with dyslexia.
The characteristics of dyslexia legislation.
Reliability is the consistency of a set of scores that are designed to measure the same thing. Reliability is a statistical property of scores that must be demonstrated rather than assumed.
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Personalized resources aligned with literacy skills for beginning readers.
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Technical assistance providers can use this template to facilitate conversations with state staff about setting a policy climate for implementation of Response to Intervention frameworks in reading at the district and school level.
Topic: General Literacy
This page includes dyslexia resource guides, Alabama's laws concerning dyslexia, and related information.
Topic: Dyslexia
View the definition of a "learning disability" as defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Many students with reading difficulties, including students with dyslexia, will be provided for under the "specific learning disability" category.
Topic: Advocacy, Dyslexia, Legislation
Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)
Definition
The ability to quickly read aloud the names of familiar objects (e.g., colors).
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 © 2020 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://improvingliterarcy.org
