La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XXXV-103

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XXXV-103 - Local Education Agency (LEA) Responsibilities

A. When considering dyslexia, LEAs shall assign school personnel trained in the identification of dyslexia to oversee student screening, assessment, and evaluation for determination of program eligibility.

B. For students with dyslexia, LEAs shall implement an evidence-based multisensory structured language and literacy instructional approach with a program that includes instruction that utilizes all learning pathways in the brain, including visual/auditory and kinesthetic/tactile, simultaneously to enhance memory and learning. Instruction should be explicit, systematic, sequential, cumulative, individualized, and diagnostic and should include automaticity of performance, simultaneous multisensory activities, and synthetic analytic phonics and in accordance with state and federal requirements.

C. No later than December 15 annually, LEAs shall submit a report to the LDOE relative to the occurrence of dyslexia. The report shall include numbers of students of all grade levels:

1. identified as having dyslexia through a Section 504 plan;

2. initially identified as having dyslexia the previous year;

3. identified with an IEP as having a specific learning disability, dyslexia; and

4. total number identified as having dyslexia.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XXXV-103

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 26:249 (February 2000), Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 47723 (6/1/2021), Repromulgated LR 471287 (9/1/2021), Amended LR 49245 (2/1/2023), Repromulgated LR 49851 (5/1/2023), Amended LR 501153 (8/1/2024).

Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:7(11), R.S. 17:392.1 and 17:392.3.