Broadcast 44: Free Screening Tool, Mississippi Dyslexia Screener

Written by Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC

Published on March 27, 2013

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tori_whaleyAs you may already know, Lexercise has created the free Mississippi Dyslexia Screener to comply with the new Mississippi legislation requiring dyslexia screening for kindergarten and first-grade students in Mississippi (Mississippi Code § 37-173-15).

Our Mississippi Dyslexia Screener is based on research-backed, open-source content and is automated for easy administration, scoring, and reporting. On Wednesday, March 27 at 2 p.m. EST, Tori Whaley, M. Ed. and Clinical Educator with Lexercise, joined us to discuss the new Screener and to demonstrate its easy administration.

Tori is a clinical educator for Lexercise and has been a committed special educator, working as an elementary special education teacher, since 2003. In 2009, Tori completed her M.Ed. in Special Education at the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, where she focused on educational strategies for students with learning disabilities.  Tori currently works with a non-profit dedicated to improving educational outcomes for young children in the city where she lives.

You can watch the video below or click here to download the presentation for this live broadcast in pdf format.

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2 Responses to Broadcast 44: Free Screening Tool, Mississippi Dyslexia Screener

  • Robert commented
    February 19, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    Where does the normed RAN test come from? I understand the other tests are from DIBELS, but I would like to see the psychometric properties of the RAN task.

    • Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC commented
      February 24, 2015 at 5:21 pm

      The cut points were drawn from: van den Bos, K.P., Zijlstra, B.J.H. and lutje Spelberg, H.C. (2002). Life-Span Data on Continuous Naming Speeds of Numbers, Letters, Colors and Pictured Objects and Word-Reading Speed, Scientific Studies of Reading, 6(1), 25-49.

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Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC

Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC

Sandie is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a former university graduate school faculty member, and a co-founder of Lexercise. Sandie has been past president of the North Carolina Speech, Hearing & Language Association and has received two clinical awards, the Public Service Award and the Clinical Services Award. She served two terms on the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists.

As a faculty member at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Sandie developed and taught structured literacy courses, supervised practicum for speech-language pathology graduate students, and coordinated a federally funded personnel preparation grant. In 2009, Sandie and her business partner, Chad Myers co-founded Mind InFormation, Inc./ Lexercise to provide accessible and scalable structured literacy services for students across the English-speaking world.