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Ark. Code Ann. § 12-29-311

Dyslexia screening — Science of reading — Intervention services

Acts 2019, No. 1088, § 2.

The Superintendent of the Arkansas Correctional School shall:

(1) Promulgate rules that require that: Teachers within the Arkansas Correctional School have and demonstrate awareness of the best practices of scientific reading instruction as required under the Right to Read Act, § 6-17-429;

(2) Each inmate who does not have a high school diploma or its equivalent receive: A reading proficiency-level assessment; and

(3) Dyslexia screening administered with fidelity, as defined under § 6-41-602.

(4) If the Arkansas Correctional School provides dyslexia intervention to an inmate who demonstrates under subdivision (1)(B)(ii)(a) of this section that the inmate is reading below the proficiency level required to be a high-functioning reader, the dyslexia intervention the Arkansas Correctional School provides shall be evidence-based and consistent with science-based research specifically tailored to addressing dyslexia; and

(5) A process be established by which new-intake inmates are: Assessed and administered a dyslexia screening with fidelity, as defined under § 6-41-602; and

(6) Provided dyslexia intervention with fidelity, as defined under § 6-41-602, that is evidence-based and consistent with science-based research specifically tailored to addressing dyslexia; and

(7) Submit a plan to the Division of Correction that allows inmates to voluntarily receive: A reading proficiency-level assessment;

(8) Dyslexia screening administered with fidelity, as defined under § 6-41-602; and

(9) Reading instruction that is consistent with the science of reading, as provided under the Right to Read Act, § 6-17-429.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.