Waxahachie ISD adopted a Dyslexia intervention program provided by special and general education personnel to meet the individualized needs of students with documented disabilities.
The Texas Education Code defines Dyslexia as a disorder of constitutional origin manifested by a difficulty in learning to read, write, or spell, despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence, and sociocultural opportunity. Students struggling with some or all of the many facets of reading, writing, and/or spelling may be provided specialized assessment in order to determine if they should be identified as a student with dyslexia.
Those students who are identified are provided with an appropriate instructional program. The WISD Dyslexia Program includes the components of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, and reading comprehension strategies. The instructional strategies utilize research-based, explicit, multisensory phonetic methods and a variety of writing and spelling components to meet the specific learning needs of each individual student.
The guidelines and procedures adopted are designed to correlate to the identification and instruction of students with dyslexia and related disorders adopted by the State Board of Education in 1992 and most recently updated in November of 2018, mandated by the state of Texas and presented in The Dyslexia Handbook: Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders.
Dyslexia support services are provided on all district campuses K-12. A request for a dyslexia evaluation may be made at any time.
