Indiana § 20-35.5-1-3 "Dyslexia program"

Indiana Statutes

§ 20-35.5-1-3 — "Dyslexia program"

Indiana § 20-35.5-1-3

Title 20EDUCATION

Art. 35.5DYSLEXIA SCREENING AND INTERVENTION

Ch. 1Definitions

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Bluebook

Ind. Code § 20-35.5-1-3 (2026).

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"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

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"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.