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April 21, 2016, Meeting Agenda

Dyslexia Guidelines Work Group Agenda - April 2016.

California Department of Education’s
DYSLEXIA GUIDELINES WORK GROUP
Meeting at California Department of Health Care Services
1500 Capitol Avenue, Training Room A
Sacramento, California

AGENDA
April 21, 2016

8:30–9:00 a.m. Registration

9:00–9:15 a.m. Welcome

9:15–9:30 a.m. Group introductions

9:30–10:00 a.m. Purpose and functions of the Dyslexia Guidelines Work Group: Overall outcomes; today’s outcomes; meeting expectations and norms; overview of today’s agenda and meeting packet; contact list

10:00–10:30 a.m. Legislative and regulatory overview:

  • Review of current laws
  • Overview of Assembly Bill 1369

15-Minute Break

10:45–11: 45 a.m. Presentation on the Neuroscience of Dyslexia:

Fumiko Hoeft, M.D. Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Dyslexia Center

11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own (see list of nearby restaurants)

1:00–2:00 p.m. Table Breakout Session: Review of other states’ guidelines for educating students with dyslexia

2:00–2:45 p.m. Report out on review of other states’ guidelines:

What works, what do you like?
Resulting suggestions for California’s guidelines…

15-Minute Break

3:00–3:45 p.m. Review of draft table of contents of California’s guidelines:

Topics to add as new sections or to build out existing sections? Changes to make?

3:45–4:00 p.m. Next steps:

  • Review of meeting calendar; May agenda
  • Consideration of writing assignments
Questions:   Theresa Costa Johansen | Dyslexia@cde.ca.gov | 916-445-4891
Last Reviewed: Monday, September 9, 2024
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