Statewide Iowa — The Department of Education continues working to implement recommendations from the state Dyslexia Board which became law.
The Department’s Brad Niebling gave an update to the Board of Education at their meeting last week and says they’ve been putting together guidance for schools.
Niebling is the head of the Bureau of Learner Strategies and Supports. He says they will meet again this week with the dyslexia board to work on the timing and structure for getting the guidance out to schools so it is ready heading in the next school year.
Niebling says using all the tools at their disposal will help accomplish the goal.
Niebling says the hope is the guidance and process will be in place heading into the next school year. He says that alone is not going to be what it takes to get results.
Niebling says they also have started a membership campaign to fill the remaining vacancies on the Dyslexia Board which are a speech language pathologist or psychologist, and a representative of the Institute of Higher Education.
