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The following information is a summary of the Tupelo Public School District’s May 18, 2006 Dyslexia Meeting:
- The Tupelo Public School District (TPSD) has a comprehensive program designed to support students in learning to read and in addressing reading disorders such as dyslexia. This program is built around skill specific assessment, a highly detailed sequential curriculum, expert teaching strategies, and multi-sensory programs delivered by qualified, highly trained teachers.
- The TPSD has a Teacher Support Team Process that enables teachers to seek support and suggestions for better meeting the instructional needs of struggling readers. Through Teacher Support Teams, student specific instructional interventions are designed, implemented, and monitored for success that may include up to 60 additional minutes of reading per day.
- All K-3 regular education teachers in the TPSD will be provided at least 10 hours of online training in the Orton-Gillingham Reading Process. The Orton-Gillingham Process is often identified as the “grandfather” of evidence-based, multi-sensory reading programs that have documented success in supporting students who have dyslexia-like reading disorders in learning to read.
- The TPSD provides a broad range of services for eligible students through the special education department. Services for eligible students are based on a comprehensive assessment that is used by highly trained teachers to plan, design, and implement, in coopera-tion with parents, a skill specific individualized education plan.
- Appropriate TPSD staff members plan to develop a one-page communication document highlighting the comprehensive programs that are available to TPSD students with dyslexia and other related reading disorders. Upon approval by the Superintendent, the communication document will be released via the TPSD Web Page, etc.
- Possible participants and forums for meetings to support parents and others in learning more about the TPSD Reading Program will be reviewed and discussed as a means of further communicating the district’s response to the issue of dyslexia and other reading disorders.
It is hoped that the information provided above will help you to be better informed about TPSD programs that are designed to support students in learning to read and in addressing reading disorders such as dyslexia.
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