2022 Indiana Code
Title 20. Education
Article 35.5. Dyslexia Screening and Intervention
Chapter 1. Definitions
20-35.5-1-3. "Dyslexia Program"
Sec. 3. "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;
(2) research based; and
(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.
As added by P.L.95-2018, SEC.2.
