No later than the 2021-2022 school year, the department of elementary and secondary education (the "department") shall collaborate with the board of education to require that all department-approved undergraduate educator preparation programs for licensure as a teacher of elementary education and as a reading specialist/consultant include instruction in:
(1) Dyslexia professional awareness of the characteristics of dyslexia and related disorders;(2) Evidence-based interventions and accommodations for dyslexia and related disorders; and(3) Completion of a classroom educator program providing instruction in the use of specific dyslexia- and related disorder-targeted methods of teaching.R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-67.2-4
Added by 2019 Pub. Laws, ch. 155, § 2, eff. 7/8/2019.Added by 2019 Pub. Laws, ch. 112, § 2, eff. 7/8/2019.