Dyslexia Legislation and Policy Information
- Annie E. Casey, Kids Count Database
- Education Commission of the States
- Education Consumers Foundation: Fiscal Effect of Reading Failure by School/District/State
- International Dyslexia Association: Dyslexia Laws in the USA, 2018
- LegiScan: Dyslexia Legislation
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- National Black Caucus of State Legislators (dyslexia resolution)
- National Center on Educational Outcomes
- National Center for Education Statistics: The Condition of Education
- National Center on Improving Literacy
- Regional Education Compacts, nonpartisan, focus on higher education policy issues
Reading and Screening
Screen and Intervene Collaborative
- The Gaab Lab at Boston Children‘s Hospital – Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Massachusetts General Hospital – Institute for Health Professions, Speech Language and Literacy Center
- The Hill for Literacy
- The Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University
- Crafting Minds
National Center for Intensive Intervention, Screening Tools Chart
Southern Region Education Board
Iowa Reading Research Center and University of Iowa College of Education (Grades 6-8)
Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Oregon (DIBELS)
Early (Emergent) Literacy
Center for Early Literacy Learning
Doing What Works Library, WestEd
Teaching Phonological Awareness in Preschool
National Institute for Early Literacy
Early Beginnings: Early Literacy Knowledge and Instruction (Goodson et al. 2009)
National Early Literacy Panel (NELP)
Preschool Literacy Instruction
National Center on Improving Literacy
How We Learn to Read: The Critical Role of Phonological Awareness
Learning About Your Child’s Reading Development
Reading Rockets: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Introduction
Definitions, Criteria, and Requirements
- ESSA Title II Part A Guidance on Funding: Building Systems of Support for Excellent Teaching and Learning
- Assessing ESSA: Missed Opportunities for Students with Disabilities, National Center on Learning Disabilities, 2018
- ESSA Title II, Part B, Subpart 2: Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation LEARN ACT
- State Comprehensive Literacy Plans & Striving Readers Grants (SRCL)
- Defines Comprehensive Literacy Instruction as age-appropriate, explicit, systematic, and intentional instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, vocabulary, language structure, reading fluency, and reading comprehension;
- Screening: requires use of age-appropriate, valid, and reliable screening assessments, diagnostic assessments, formative assessment processes, and summative assessments to identify a child’s learning needs, to inform instruction, and to monitor the child’s progress and the effects of instruction;
- Serves the needs of students below grade level;
- State Comprehensive Literacy Plans & Striving Readers Grants (SRCL)
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Evidence for Academic Interventions, Progress Monitoring & Screening, American Institute for Research
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Evidence Review for Literacy & Reading: IRIS Center (Vanderbilt)What Works Clearinghouse
- FCCR: Study Guide to Implement Evidence Based Practices for School Turnaround, 2016
- FCCR: Guide for Identifying Evidence Based Interventions
- Logic Models for Program Design, Evaluation and Implementation, USDOE, 2015
- International Dyslexia Association/James Kilpatrick: Indicators that Explain Intervention Effectiveness
- National Center on Education and the Economy // IES: Tools to Become World Class in Education
- National Center on Intensive Intervention: Evaluating Reading Screening & Intervention Programs
- Navigating Evidence Based Practice Resource Websites
- Non–Regulatory Guidance: Using Evidence to Strengthen Education Investments, US Dept. of Education, 2016
- Quality of Project Design and Evaluation
- REL: Rubric For Evaluating Evidence Based Instruction
- Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
- What is Evidence Based? Regulations
- What Works Clearinghouse
Selected State Implementation Models for Reading
Arkansas
R.I.S.E. Arkansas: Arkansas Department of Education
Mississippi
Evaluation & Recommendations on Teacher Preparation for Early Literacy Instruction
New Jersey
Multisensory Structured Literacy– Group Instruction Methodology
Dyslexia and Other Reading Disabilities: An Overview of Screening, Assessment, Intervention, and Assistive Technology
Oregon
Dyslexia Law: Carrie Thomas Beck, Dyslexia Specialist, Oregon Department of Education, Oregon Dyslexia Legislation Video, Frequently Asked Questions, 2017
Pennsylvania
Screening and Instruction Pilot Data, Year 2, AIR Report, 1/2018
South Carolina
Module 1: What is it and what do we know about it?
Module 2: How do we screen for dyslexia and other reading disorders?
Module 3: Evidence–Based Instruction for Students with Dyslexia
Virginia
Structured Literacy Course for Parents and Educators
Tools to Try
Tools & Resources |
Policy Support |
Productivity |
Apps/Programs |
Research Access: IDA, Lynda.com (free through library); email author |
NationBuilder (Paid) |
FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Hootsuite, Sumall... |
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Checklists for: Screening, Instruction & Accommodations |
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Pockets of Promise 1. Schools 2. Districts 3. States |
Group Messaging: GroupMe |
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Templates for storytelling at all levels of advocacy |
Southern Region Education Board (SREB): Supporting Dyslexia |
One Note/One Drive |
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NationBuilder (paid) |
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Dyslexia Blogs and Websites |
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Comparison: Guided Reading & Structured Literacy |
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