New Haven, CT: 20% of SPED students have reading difficulties

July 9, 2017, New Haven (CT) Register: North Haven organization helping Connecticut school district develop strategies for dyslexia http://www.nhregister.com/social-affairs/20170709/north-haven-organization-helping-connecticut-school-district-develop-strategies-for-dyslexia Heiligenthaler estimates as many as 20 percent of the students identified as having special needs in Norwalk have reading difficulties, including dyslexia. Just how many is uncertain. Until a state law was passed two years ago, dyslexia wasn’t tracked as a specific diagnosis. The first cohort of six trained Norwalk teachers will be followed by five Norwalk psychologists who will receive training by Fairfield University in how to diagnose dyslexia.