Indiana’s public and charter schools must meet requirements to identify, as early as possible, struggling readers who show risk factors for dyslexia and then provide systematic, sequential, and multisensory instruction to meet their needs.
All kindergarten through second-grade students will undergo a universal screener to check their skills in six different areas. These areas are: phonological and phonemic awareness (ability to separate and change sounds in words), alphabet knowledge (name different letters), sound-symbol relationship (phonics), decoding (reading), rapid naming (quickly name common objects), and encoding (spelling).
Students who fall below a set score, or benchmark on the universal screener, will be found “at some risk” for the characteristics of dyslexia.
If you do not want your child to participate in the universal screener, please contact the instructional coach at your school.
