The Dyslexia Handbook

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DYSLEXIA
HANDBOOK

REVISED 2014
Procedures Concerning
Dyslexia and Related
Disorders

TEXAS EDUC!TION !GENCY • !USTIN, TEX!S
APRIL 2014

THE DYSLEXIA HANDBOOK


REVISED 2014

Procedures Concerning
Dyslexia and Related Disorders

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Texas Education Code §42.006(a-1) (State Law)

§42.006 Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS)

(a-1) The commissioner by rule shall require each school district and open-enrollment charter school
to report through the Public Education Information Management System information regarding the
number of students enrolled in the district or school who are identified as having dyslexia. The agency
shall maintain the information provided in accordance with this subsection.

Amended by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 295 (H.B.1264), sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.

Texas Education Code §51.9701 (State Law)

§51.9701 Assessment For Dyslexia

Unless otherwise provided by law, an institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003, may
not reassess a student determined to have dyslexia for the purpose of assessing the student’s need for
accommodations until the institution of higher education reevaluates the information obtained from
previous assessments of the student.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 635, Sec. 5, eff. June 17, 2011.

Texas Occupations Code Chapter 54
EXAMINATION ON RELIGIOUS HOLY DAY; EXAMINATION ACCOMMODATION FOR PERSON WITH
DYSLEXIA
Section 2. Amends Chapter 54 Occupations Code, by adding Section 54.003, as follows:
Sec. 54.003. EXAMINATION ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PERSON WITH DYSLEXIA (a) Defines, in this
section, “dyslexia,”
(b) Requires a state agency, for each licensing examination administered by the agency, to provide

reasonable examination accommodations to an examinee diagnosed as having dyslexia.

(c)Requires each state agency to adopt rules as necessary to implement this section, including rules to

establish the eligibility criteria and examinee must meet for accommodation under this section.

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 418, Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2011.


Texas Occupations Code Chapter 403. LICENSED DYSLEXIA PRACTITIONERS AND LICENSED
DYSLEXIA THERAPISTS

SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 403.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state health services.
(2) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(3) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services
Commission.
(4) "License holder" means a person who holds a license issued under this chapter.
(5) "Multisensory structured language education" means a program described by the International
Multisensory Structured Language Education Council for the treatment of individuals with dyslexia and
related disorders that provides instruction in the skills of reading, writing, and spelling:

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