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Steamboat Reading tells school board early screening, partnerships key to helping students with dyslexia
Summary
Steamboat Reading told the Steamboat Springs School Board that dyslexia affects about 1 in 5 students (roughly 480 locally) and described sustained one-on-one interventions, partnerships with schools, and plans for community outreach as state screening requirements take effect.
Kim Schultz, executive director of the nonprofit Steamboat Reading, told the Steamboat Springs School Board on Oct. 20 that dyslexia is a common language-based learning difference affecting reading, spelling and writing and that early screening and structured interventions are critical to student success.
"Dyslexia impacts about 1 in every 5 students," Schultz said, and that rate would translate to roughly 480 students in the district. Schultz and Alyssa Liberte, Steamboat Reading’s program director, described the group’s one-on-one interventions, learning evaluations and free workshops for parents and teachers.
Schultz and Liberte said Steamboat Reading worked with a Colorado Department of Education (CDE)-funded high-intensity tutoring program in 2023–24 that…
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