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151:1 Schools; Screening and Intervention for Dyslexia and Related Disorders. Amend RSA 200:59 to read as follows:
200:59 Screening and Intervention for Dyslexia and Related Disorders.
I. School districts shall screen all public school and chartered public school students, including English learners, using the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) or an equivalent cost effective screener for the identification of potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders upon *enrollment in public school kindergarten or first grade, and at appropriate times thereafter, to monitor progress. Beginning in 2017, such screening shall be completed no later than November 30 of each school year
II. The student's school districtshall provide age-appropriate, evidence-based, intervention strategies for any student who is identified as having characteristics that are associated with potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders beginning no later than January 1, 2018.
III. The parent or legal guardian of any student who is identified by the public school as having characteristics that are associated with potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders shall be notified and provided with all screening information and findings, in addition to periodic formal screening results based on individual written intervention and support plans developed with the student's parents or legal guardian.
IV. A parent or legal guardian of any student who is identified as having characteristics that are associated with potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders has the right to submit the results of an independent evaluation from a licensed reading or intervention specialist highly trained in dyslexia and related disorders for consideration by the student's school district. A parent or legal guardian who submits an independent evaluation shall assume all fiscal responsibility for that independent evaluation.
151:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 28, 2023
Effective Date: September 26, 2023
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151:1 Schools; Screening and Intervention for Dyslexia and Related Disorders. Amend RSA 200:59 to read as follows:
200:59 Screening and Intervention for Dyslexia and Related Disorders.
I. School districts shall screen all public school and chartered public school students, including English learners, using an evidence-based screener for the identification of potential indicators or risk factors of dyslexia and related disorders upon beginning no later than January 1, 2018highly* trained in dyslexia and related disorders for consideration by the student's school district. A parent or legal guardian who submits an independent evaluation shall assume all fiscal responsibility for that independent evaluation.
151:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 28, 2023
Effective Date: September 26, 2023