No later than the 2021-2022 school year, the department of elementary and secondary education (the “department”) shall collaborate with the board of education to require that all department-approved undergraduate educator preparation programs for licensure as a teacher of elementary education and as a reading specialist/consultant include instruction in:

(1)  Dyslexia professional awareness of the characteristics of dyslexia and related disorders;

(2)  Evidence-based interventions and accommodations for dyslexia and related disorders; and

(3)  Completion of a classroom educator program providing instruction in the use of specific dyslexia- and related disorder-targeted methods of teaching.

History of Section.
P.L. 2019, ch. 112, § 2; P.L. 2019, ch. 155, § 2.