A non-profit organization serving as consultants to teachers of students whom we have evaluated and who have been determined to be experiencing dyslexia, language-learning disabilities, or severe speech or language
disabilities www.alsrlcenter.orf
Helping struggling readers including those with dyslexia is the primary function of the Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation. We began providing reading assistance, at no cost, to children at the University of Montevallo in 1978 with the establishment of the Scottish Rite Clinic for Childhood Language Disorders. In 2001, we retained the services of Dr. Denise Gibbs, former professor and Director of the Scottish Rite Clinic for Childhood Language Disorders, and established the Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation Learning Centers.
We provide dyslexia evaluations / testing at no cost to families and we provide webinars for Alabama educators and for parents to increase awareness and understanding of dyslexia. Our professional development webinars target identification and intervention for students with dyslexia and help equip schools in implementation of the Dyslexia Amendments to the Alabama Administrative Code.
The Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation partnered with a wide network of parents, educators and dyslexia advocates to encourage the adoption of the Dyslexia Amendments to the Alabama Administrative Code in 2015. The unanimous adoption of these Dyslexia Amendments by the Alabama State Board of Education on October 8, 2015 marked a new era for children with dyslexia in Alabama public schools.
Our Foundation is in full support of the Alabama Dyslexia Bill of Rights that formed the basis of the Dyslexia Amendments. We believe that all children with dyslexia should be guaranteed their own 3 R’s. Students with dyslexia should be RECOGNiZED through dyslexia-specific screening, should be REACHED through dyslexia-specific intervention delivered in a timely manner, and will then be taught to READ in order achieve their God-given potential.