Arkansas – PASSED – SB153- Act 83 of 2019 passed. This was their 7th piece of dyslexia legislation in 6 years!
2. Ensure the professional development lines up with the right to read act and the pathways designed by the ADE.
All deal with literacy… all deal with higher ed and K-12 education.
c) identify cost-effective screening tests that screen for phonological awareness, rapid naming skills, correspondence between sounds and letters, and a family history of difficulty in learning to read.
Adds definitions; Creation of dyslexia handbook; Training for future teachers; Three year pilot program at three districts to include Stuctured Literacy training – will provide financial evidence of cost savings using improved teaching methodology; Universal screening of all Kindergarten students and some students in grades 1-3.
Summary: Requires each local school district and charter school to have on file a policy for reading intervention plans for any pupils of the district and charter schools in grades kindergarten through four.
Abbreviated summary: relating to dyslexia screenings and training for teachers and other staff; to amend and reenact section 15.1-02-16 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to credentials for dyslexia specialists; and to provide for a report to the legislative management. Was read the first time and referred to the Education Committee.
H.406 introduced 2/26/19 Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to require that students in public schools be screened for dyslexia and that teachers receive training concerning dyslexia.
Standards of Quality; reading diagnostic tests. Requires that the first reading diagnostic test administered in the school year to a student in kindergarten through grade three include age-normed and evidence-based phonological processing measures, including phonemic awareness and rapid automatized naming.
This is a chronological list of states who are addressing dyslexia with most recent news/reports first. This is not an exhaustive list but just a good place to see recent developments in other states.
Kentucky K-3 Dyslexia Toolkit – Published January 2019. 23 pages.
Georgia State Senate Final Report of the Senate Study Committee on Dyslexia (SR761) – Published December 2018. Recommendations include Post-Secondary Curriculum, Screening in Schools and Approved Screeners, Statewide Guidance, Teacher Training & Evaluation.
Per this article: Senate Bill 73 draft being introduced requires each local school district and charter school to have on file a policy for reading intervention plans for any pupils of the district and charter schools in grades kindergarten through four.
Per this segment, a task force is under way. Task Force hopefully reporting by end of January 2019.