All Arkansas schools must have an intervention program in place to assist students identified as having characteristics of dyslexia. Friendship Aspire Academy Arkansas uses Fundations phonics, Fountas and Pinnell and Words Their Way curricula. The school would also provide explicit, direct instruction that is systematic, sequential, and cumulative and followed a logical plan of presenting the alphabetic principle. FAA will target the specific needs of the student without presuming prior skills or knowledge of said student.
During the 18-19 school year no students were identified.
All Arkansas public schools must have trained Dyslexia Interventionists on staff. Friendship Aspire Academy Arkansas has a coordinator and trained teachers at each campus.
Applications may be subject to verification at any time during the school year by school officials.
All Arkansas public schools must have trained Dyslexia Interventionists on staff. Friendship Aspire Academy Arkansas has a coordinator and trained teachers at each campus.
Screening tools used by FAA Public Charter School may include DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy), Dyslexia Screener (Apple Group), CTOPP-2 (Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing), WIST (Word Identification and Spelling Test), TOSWRF-2 (Test of Silent Word Reading Fluency), and WJ III DRB (Woodcock-Johnson Diagnostic Reading Battery) as needed.