What is dyslexia?
According the the International Dyslexia Association, "Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability. Dyslexia refers to a cluster of symptoms, which result in people having difficulties with specific language skills, particularly reading. Students with dyslexia usually experience difficulties with other language skills such as spelling, writing, and pronouncing words."
New laws and initiatives launched in many states require evidence-based interventions, early identification, and teacher training to address the needs of dyslexic students and struggling readers.
How do our programs help?
Our evidence-based and unique approach develops the underlying sensory-cognitive processes of phonemic awareness, symbol imagery, and concept imagery. Through multisensory instruction, our programs integrate these critical foundational skills. Our programs are highly effective for dyslexic students and struggling readers because instruction is intensive, explicit, systematic, diagnostic, and cumulative. For many students, deficits in these underlying sensory-cognitive skills can be remediated, allowing them to become independent, proficient readers. And our approach, when used developmentally for at-risk students, may prevent the eventual diagnosis of dyslexia.
Dyslexia Laws in the USA (courtesy of the International Dyslexia Association)
More than two dozen states have passed or proposed new laws to raise awareness about dyslexia. This awareness comes through increased screening, intervention programs, and teacher training. While not every state has passed dyslexia-focused legislation, there's a movement in nearly every state to legislate the educational approach to tackling dyslexia. Here's a state-by-state look at dyslexia and initiatives.
