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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 |