Dyslexia Scholarship Should Be Renewed And Expanded February 22, 2016 by Brett Kittredge In 2012 the state legislature adopted the Mississippi Dyslexia Therapy
Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program with strong bi-partisan support.
The Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship
for Students with Dyslexia program allows students with a diagnosis of dyslexia to receive a voucher in an amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $ 5,000.
The TIDE School opened in 2015 and provides individualized educational
planning for students with dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, anxiety disorders, and other specific learning disorders or impairments that -LSB-...]
In 2012, the state legislature approved by the Dyslexia Scholarship, Mississippi's first private school choice program and the nation's first school choice program designed
exclusively for students with dyslexia.
This includes the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs program, which is an education scholarship account for students with special needs, and
vouchers for students with dyslexia and speech language therapy needs.
In addition to being the only touchscreen color E Ink eReader in the world, it's preloaded with many academic tools and resources such as talking dictionaries and SAT prep courses; Math, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, and Biology references; graphing, accounting, and scientific calculators; multilingual talking translators; fluent Text To Speech for all books - a useful
feature for students with dyslexia - and more.
Research suggests that if all children were taught to read using approaches that
work for students with dyslexia, reading achievement would improve overall.
They are a great way to differentiate instruction and because they are multi-sensory, they work
wonders for students with dyslexia, autism, ADHD, emotional disorders, and other learning differences.
Many teachers will make
allowances for students with dyslexia and as long as they understand what the student is saying, will accept the answer, even if there are spelling or grammatical errors.
In addition to increasing per - pupil funding, Huberty's bill provides schools with weighted
funding for students with dyslexia, and reduces the amount of money that local taxpayers in wealthier areas would pay in Recapture by $ 163 million in 2018 and $ 192 million in 2019.
The IDA Knowledge and Practice Standards fill a crucial need by comprehensively addressing the nature of effective teaching of reading, optimal educational settings, and qualifications of educators who design and deliver reading instruction,
particularly for students with dyslexia and other struggling students.
During the past two years, Abigael has applied her talents and expertise serving as a therapeutic
tutor for students with dyslexia, ADHD and other differential processing issues.