DYSLEXIA
In accordance with IC 20-35.5-5-2, East Noble School Corporation shall publicly report on its webpage the following information related to Dyslexia:
Consent for Screening
As part of the annual online registration process in July-August of each school year, parents/guardians will be asked to answer YES or NO to the following statement:
This school year, I would like my student(s) in grades K-2 to be screened for Dyslexia. I understand that if I consent to this screening process, my student(s) will be given between 6-18 assessments approved by the Indiana Department of Education under Senate Enrolled Act 172. My student will be removed from class for these assessments, each lasting from 5-40 minutes, for a total potential testing time of twelve (12) hours. During this testing process, if my student is determined to be at risk for Dyslexia, I will be notified so that I may consult with my child’s pediatrician and eye doctor to rule out any other potential causes for the learning difficulty. I will also be notified and included in any further school interventions.
If I choose to decline the screener at this time, I may opt-in again at any time by contacting my student’s teacher.
The following are the approved ENSC Dyslexia Screeners:
Universal Screeners
| Reading Focus | Assessment Name | Average Testing Time |
| Phonological and phonemic awareness | NWEA Skills checklist: Phonological Awareness & Phoneme Identification | 40 minutes |
| Alphabet knowledge | NWEA Skills Checklist: Letter Identification | 21 minutes |
| Sound symbol recognition | NWEA Skills Checklist: Phonics: Matching Letters to Sound | 40 minutes |
| Decoding skills | NWEA Skills Checklist: Consonant Blends and Diagraphs | 40 minutes |
| Rapid naming skills | Arkansas Rapid Automized Naming Screener | 5 minutes |
| Encoding skills | Words Their Way: Primary Spelling Inventory | 20 minutes |
| Reading Focus | Assessment Name | Average Testing Time |
| Phonological and phonemic awareness | NWEA Skills Checklist: Phonemic Awareness Manipulation of Sounds | 40 minutes |
| Sound symbol recognition | NWEA Skills Checklist-Phonics: Both Syllable Types Checklists (Vowel, digraphs/Dipthongs, CVC, CVCe, R-controlled) | 40 minutes |
| Alphabet knowledge | NWEA Skills Checklist: Letter Identification (use errors) | 21 minutes |
| Decoding skills | NWEA Skills Checklist: Other Decoding Checklists (Spelling Patterns/Word Families, Multi-Syllable Words, Affixes, Open/C+le) | 40 minutes |
| Rapid naming skills | Arkansas Rapid Automized Naming Screener (repeat) or Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) and Rapid Alternating Stimulus (RAS) | 5 minutes |
| Encoding skills | Use unedited writing samples or dictated spelling – Authentic Evidence | |
If screeners indicate the need for intervention services, the intervention may include:
- Explicit direct instruction that is systematic, sequential, and cumulative and follows a logical plan of presenting the alphabetic principle that targets the specific needs of the student without presuming prior skills or knowledge of the student;
- Individualized instruction to meet the specific needs of the student in a setting that uses intensive, highly concentrated instruction methods and materials that maximize student engagement;
- Meaning based instruction directed at purposeful reading and writing with an emphasis on comprehension and composition;
- Instruction that incorporates the simultaneous use of two or more sensory pathways during teacher presentations and student practice; and
- Other instructional approaches as determined appropriate by the school corporation or charter school
ENSC Tier 2 Instruction may include:
- Title I services in applicable buildings
- Small group LLI instruction
- Small group phonics instruction
- Small group Orton Gillingham instruction
Dyslexia Screener Data
2018-2019 Data
- The number of students who received dyslexia interventions – Less than ten (10)
- The total number of students identified as being at risk for dyslexia during the previous school year – Less than ten (10)
2019-2020 Data
- Due to the unprecedent school shut down for COVID-19, complete data sets were not obtained for the 2019-2020 school year.