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Dyslexia
The Aldine Independent School District Board of Trustees ensures that procedures for identifying students with dyslexia and related disorders are in place. The Board also ensures that appropriate instructional services to such students are implemented.
Preschool
- Delay in learning to talk
- Difficulty with rhyming
- Difficulty pronouncing words
- Poor auditory memory for nursery rhymes and chants
- Difficulty in adding new vocabulary words
- Inability to recall the right word
- Trouble learning and naming letters and numbers and remembering the letters in his/her name
- Aversion to print
Kindergarten and First Grade
- Difficulty breaking words into smaller parts (syllables)
- Difficulty identifying and manipulating sounds in syllables
- Difficulty remembering names of letters and recalling of their corresponding sounds
- Difficulty decoding single words
- Difficulty spelling words the way they sound or remembering letter sequences in very common words seen often in print
Second Grade and Third Grade
- Difficulty recognizing common sight words
- Difficulty decoding single words
- Difficulty recalling the correct sounds for letters and letter patterns in reading
- Difficulty connecting speech sounds with appropriate letter or letter combinations and omitting letters in words for spelling
- Difficulty reading fluently
- Difficulty decoding unfamiliar words in sentences using knowledge of phonics
- Reliance on picture clues, story theme, or guessing at words
- Difficulty with written expression
Fourth Grade through Sixth Grade
- Difficulty reading aloud (fear of reading in front of classmates)
- Avoidance of reading
- Acquisition of less vocabulary due to reduced independent reading
- Use of less complicated words in writing that are easier to spell than more appropriate words
- Reliance on listening rather than reading for comprehension
Middle through High School
- Difficulty with the volume of reading and written work
- Frustration with the amount of time required and energy expended for reading
- Difficulty with written assignments
- Tendency to avoid reading
- Difficulty learning a foreign language
- Characteristics of dyslexia pages 7-9 and related disorders (dysgraphia) pages 55-56
- Evaluation and identification of dyslexia pages 23-35 and related disorders (dysgraphia) pages 56-62
- Effective instructional strategies for teaching students with dyslexia pages 48-41 and related disorders (dysgraphia) pages 62-67
- Instructional accommodations for Students with Disabilities pages 51-54 and dysgraphia pages 66-67
Below are PDFs of The Dyslexia Handbook – Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders in English and Spanish. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the files.
The Texas Education Agency provides the following resources for parents.
SpedTex: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia
SpedTex Website
TEA Resources
TEA Dyslexia and Related Disorders
Dyslexia and Related Disorders
This page includes resources to assist in identifying and providing services for students with dyslexia and related disorders in Texas schools. In addition to this page, information is available through the dyslexia contacts at each of the 20 regional education service centers and the state dyslexia contact at Region 10. We welcome any suggestions you may have that will improve this page.
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Response to Intervention
Response to Intervention (RtI) is an approach that schools use to help all students, including struggling learners. The RtI approach gives Texas students opportunities to learn and work at their grade level. The idea is to help all students be successful.
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Parent and Family Resources
Community Parent Resource Centers, Education Service Center (ESC) Technical Assistance, Guidance on ARD Guide Production and Required Dissemination, Guidance on Revocation of Parental Consent for Special Education Services, Guidance on Procedural Safeguards Production and Required Dissemination, and Parent Training and Information (PTI) Projects
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Provision of Services for Students with Dyslexia and Related Disorders
This page provides local education agencies (LEAs) with guidance and clarification regarding the provision of services to students identified with dyslexia.
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Assessments for Students with Disabilities
The Texas Assessment Program is a statewide testing program that includes STAAR©, STAAR Spanish, and STAAR Alternate 2. In addition, online embedded supports (i.e., content and language supports, oral administration via text-to-speech, and spelling assistance) are available on STAAR for eligible students. Information about these embedded supports and other designated supports can be found on the Accommodation Resources webpage.
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