Section 20-35.5-1-3 - "Dyslexia program" "Dyslexia program" means explicit, direct instruction that is:
(1) systematic, sequential, and cumulative and follows a logical plan of presenting the alphabetic principle that targets the specific needs of a student without presuming prior skills or knowledge of the student;(3) offered in a setting to teach a student the components of reading instruction, including: (A) phonemic awareness to enable a student to detect, segment, blend, and manipulate sounds in spoken language;(B) graphophonemic knowledge for teaching the letter sound plan of English;(C) the structure of the English language that includes morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics;(D) linguistic instruction directed toward proficiency and fluency with the patterns of language so that words and sentences are carriers of meaning; and(E) strategies that a student uses for decoding, encoding, word recognition, fluency, and comprehension.Added by P.L. 95-2018,SEC. 2, eff. 7/1/2018.