Special Education Resources

Your School and Special Education

This is a slideshow from Megan Caranna, Assistant Director of Special Education, provided at the Assistant Director training on 9/18/2024. 

Please review this slideshow for important information about using Credit Flex with students who receive special education, as well as how suspensions and expulsions should be handled, and best practices for how Intervention Specialists can work with the Academic staff and Administration productively.  

Ohio Extended Standards

Click the image below to get to ODE's site with all the subject area Extended Standards. 

ODE Special Education Site

Click the image below to get to ODE's Special Education Site. 

Ohio Dyslexia Supports

Click the image below to get to ODE's Dyslexia Supports Site. 

Ohio Family Engagement Center-Dyslexia

Dyslexia Professional Development

The following is from ODE's site on Professional Development related to Dyslexia. 

Ohio Department of Education Dyslexia Course 

The Ohio Department of Education has developed a free course for teachers providing instruction to students in grades K-3 to meet the professional development requirements.
For information on accessing the course, please review the Instructions for Accessing the Introduction to Dyslexia Course.

The Ohio Department of Education will be developing an additional free course to meet the professional development requirements for intervention specialists and teachers providing instruction to students in grades 4-12. Intervention specialists serving these grade bands must complete the PD by the beginning of the 2025-26 school year. More information about this course, including its release date, is forthcoming.
 

The following outlines the 18 hours of content recommended by the Ohio Dyslexia Committee: 

• Pre and Post Assessment for Participants  

• What is Structured Literacy?  

• Science of Reading Overview  

• Defining Dyslexia and Identifying Characteristics of Dyslexia  

• Multi-Tiered System of Support Overview  

• Structured Literacy in Core (Tier 1) Instruction  

• Using Data to Plan Instruction through Reading Profiles and Aligned Interventions  

• Teaching Word Recognition  

  • Phonological awareness  

  • Basic phonics 

  • Advanced phonics (morphology, syllable types, etymology) 

  • ​Sight word recognition 

• Teaching Handwriting  

  • Print / Manuscript 

  • Cursive 

  • Brief, explicit and systematic instruction 

• Teaching Language Comprehension  

  • Language Structures (Syntax) 

  • Vocabulary 

  • Background Knowledge 

• Fluency 

  • Rate 

  • Prosody 

  • Accuracy 

• Comprehending Grade-Level Texts  

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