This resolution would create a seventeen (17) member special legislative study commission whose purpose it would be to assess the educational needs of children with reading disabilities and dyslexia.
Enacted
Wyoming - 2012 - SF52 - Dyslexia Screening and Response
AN ACT relating to reading assessment and intervention; requiring assessment and early intervention for dyslexia and other reading difficulties; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.
Oklahoma - 2012 - SB 1565 - Dyslexia Teacher Training
Schools - establishing dyslexia teacher training pilot program - requiring State Regents to promulgate rules.
Kentucky – 2012 – HB 69 – Early Education Assessment
AN ACT relating to early education assessment and intervention. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define “aphasia,” “dyscalculia,” dyslexia,” “phonemic awareness,” and “scientifically based research”;
Ohio - 2011-2012 - HB 157 - Teacher Professional Development
Authorizes educational service centers to provide teacher professional development on dyslexia.
Provides that the governing board of any educational service center may engage the services of a dyslexia specialist to provide training for teachers of grades kindergarten to four on the indicators of dyslexia and the types of instruction that children with dyslexia need to learn, read, write, and spell.
