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To enact section 3319.80 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
authorize educational service centers to provide | 2 |
teacher professional development on dyslexia. | 3 |
Section 1. That section 3319.80 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
enacted to read as follows: | 5 |
Sec. 3319.80. (A) The governing board of any educational | 6 |
service center may engage the services of a dyslexia specialist to | 7 |
provide training for teachers of grades kindergarten to four on | 8 |
the indicators of dyslexia and the types of instruction that | 9 |
children with dyslexia need to learn, read, write, and spell. If a | 10 |
service center provides this training, it shall make the training | 11 |
available to local school districts within the service center's | 12 |
territory and to other school districts, community schools, and | 13 |
STEM schools that have contracted for the training from the | 14 |
service center under section 3313.843, 3313.844, 3313.845, or | 15 |
3326.45 of the Revised Code. | 16 |
If a governing board of any educational service center does | 17 |
not provide the training, a group of local school districts within | 18 |
the service center's territory may engage the services of a | 19 |
dyslexia specialist to provide training for teachers | 20 |
independently. | 21 |
A school district or school may require the training | 22 |
authorized under this section for its teachers as part of the | 23 |
district's or school's regular in-service training programs. | 24 |
(B) As used in this section: | 25 |
(1) "Dyslexia" means a specific learning disorder that is | 26 |
neurological in origin and that is characterized by unexpected | 27 |
difficulties with accurate or fluent word recognition and by poor | 28 |
spelling and decoding abilities not consistent with the person's | 29 |
intelligence, motivation, and sensory capabilities, which | 30 |
difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological | 31 |
component of language. | 32 |
(2) "Dyslexia specialist" means a person who is trained and | 33 |
certified in a multisensory structured language program that meets | 34 |
the level II specialist criteria set by the international dyslexia | 35 |
association's knowledge and practice standards or standards from | 36 |
any other nationally recognized organization that specializes in | 37 |
issues surrounding dyslexia, or any subsequently adopted | 38 |
standards. | 39 |