READ 7367 - Teaching Children with Dyslexia

This course is designed to provide practicing teachers and other educational professionals with an introduction to dyslexia, the myths and politics associated with the history of dyslexia, an overview of Arkansas law and special education law relating to assessment and intervention of children with dyslexia, dyslexia characteristics associated with development of the structure of language, and a review of literacy development as it relates to children with moderate or severe difficulties with learning to read from emergent to advanced stages of development.