Utah Code Title 53B. State System of Higher Education § 53B-17-1001. Reading clinics--Purpose

(a) assessing elementary school students who do not demonstrate satisfactory progress in reading;

(b) providing instructional intervention to enable the students to overcome reading difficulties; and

(c) becoming better prepared to help all students become successful readers by providing them with professional development programs in reading that are based on best practices and the most current, scientific research available through nationally and internationally recognized reading researchers and instructional specialists.

(3)(a) The clinic shall focus primarily on students in grades 1 through 3 since research shows the need for students to become successful readers by the end of grade 3.

(b) The clinic shall make assessment and instructional intervention services available to public education students of all ages.

(a) instruction to teachers in the use of technology and blended learning in providing individualized reading instruction and reading remediation; and

(b) access to students for reading remediation and instruction services through distance learning technology if a student is unable to regularly access a reading clinic location.