Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            | Episode | Date | 
|---|---|
| 
                                                     
                                                        Making Space for a Better Place with the CLD | Alyson Collins
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 15, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Way Out Here: Small Town, Big Challenges | Amy Rogers
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 01, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Another Brick in the Wall of Education Systems: Disproportionality | Paul Morgan and Eric Hu
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 17, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Welcome to the Jungle: Organizing Informal Assessments | Tammy Stephens
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 03, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Just Because It Makes Sense Doesn't Mean It's True | Nazzie Pater-Rov & Amy Smith
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 20, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Special Education: Have We Lost Our Vision or Lead the Way? 
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 06, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        In Memory of Lynn Fuchs | Nazzie Pater-Rov
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 21, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Standing in the Hall of Fame of Literacy Leaders | Barbara Foorman
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 14, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Every Little Step They Take: A Skills-Based Math Assessment | Kathleen Pfannenstiel
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 07, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        High Hopes, Higher Standards in Special Ed. Endrew F. | Mitchell Yell
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 02, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Give it to me Straight from the Heart: TX State Guidance for SLD Evaluations | Candace Vielma & Nazzie Pater-Rov
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Mar 19, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        How Specific Are LDs? One Thing Leads to Another! | Robin Peterson
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 27, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        CBM as Easy as ABC! | Michelle Hosp
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 13, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Reading's Gotta Be So...Smoooth! | Jan Hasbrouck & Gerry Tendal
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 30, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Zombie IQ Discrepancies: What's In Your Head? | Linda Siegel
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 23, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Hear Ye! Texas' 89th Legislative Session! | Nazzie Pater-Rov & Gang
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 16, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Strike a Pose: Reading by Design is IN VOGUE | Diane Burke & Jan Cook
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Dec 18, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        The ANCR is Blowing in the Wind: Fluid Reasoning of Diverse Learners | Carl Romstad & Milton Dehn
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Dec 04, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Call it What it IS: Say Dyslexia! | Tiffany Piltier
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Nov 20, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        All That MATRS to Reading & Spelling: Tests of Morphology | Kenn Apel
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 29, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Let's Talk About It! | Ed Schultz, Amy Thompson, Zaronia Gibbs
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 15, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Turn FIEs into Gold with the MIDAS Touch | Branton Shearer
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 01, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Slow Learner? Why Does it Have to Be So Complicated | Stefan Dombrowski
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 20, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Maybe We Work Too Hard Because What We Are Doing is Not Working? 
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 06, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        What Does Evidence Based Assessment Require? | Nazzie Pater-Rov
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 23, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Texas 2024 Dyslexia Handbook FAQs
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 16, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Changes! To the Operating Guidelines (pt.1) | Amy Smith
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 02, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Fight'n Words? The Dyslexia Debate Revisited | Julian Elliott
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jun 05, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Here Comes the Sun: Shedding Light on Dyslexia with the NCIL | Nancy Nelson
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 31, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Reach for the Stars: The Constellation Model for Dyslexia Identification | Joe Torgesen and Richard Wagner
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 17, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Identification of SLD: What Were They Thinking? | Nazzie Pater-Rov
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 10, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Helping Kids Be Understood: Assessing Social Skills that Matter | Steve Elliott
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 03, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Assessment of Dyslexia in Kindergarten? | Candace Vielma and Valencia Ashley
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 26, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Working on the Rewrite: CBMs for Writing | John Romig
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 19, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Let's Use Everything In the Book to Help Kids Read | David Kilpatrick
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 12, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Here Comes the Judge: Defending Your FIE in Court | Robert Lackey
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 05, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Times, They are a Changin': Revisions to the Dyslexia Handbook | Nazzie Pater-Rov with Aimee Seaberry and others on Clubhouse
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 23, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        What Does the "Specific" Mean in Specific Learning Disability? | Nazzie Pater-Rov with Others on Clubhouse
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 16, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Citing Research in Your FIE | Nazzie Pater-Rov with Amy Smith
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 09, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Hey! What's Goin' On? Assessment: Hope for a Destination | Jim Ysseldyke & Amanda VanDerHeyden
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 02, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        The Art of Teaching the Science of Reading | Timothy Rasinski
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 26, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Gotta Be Start'n Something: RTI, Hold Your Head Up High! | Lynn & Doug Fuchs
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 18, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Get With The Program! Diagnostician Training Programs in Texas
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 12, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        CBM: A Step in the Right Direction | Nazzie Pater-Rov
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 05, 2024 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Let's Stop Fooln' Around and Start Assessing Basic Skills | Nathan Clemens
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Dec 08, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Don't Just Stand There On the Wall, Move with Adapted PE | Linda Hilgenbrinck
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Dec 01, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        A Professor Goes to Washington, What Have We Learned? | Deborah Speece & Nathan Jones
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Nov 10, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Let's Play it Safe! The Reynolds Dyslexia Risk Assessment | Cecil Reynolds
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Nov 03, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        We are the CORE, C-Sep Updates | Ed Schultz
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 27, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        With a Little Help From our Friends: Related Services | David Bateman and Lisa Goran
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 20, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Breaking Silence: Assessing the Nonverbal Child | Jyutika Mehta
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 13, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        We Are Survivors: Impact of Trauma on Children | Wendi Johnson & Steven Feifer
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 06, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        That's Just the Way it Is: Disproportionality in Special Education | Russell Skiba
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 29, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Misunderstood and Mistreated: Disproportionality P 2 | Hani Morgan
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 22, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        For What It's Worth: Disproportionality in Special Education | Byron McClure
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 15, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Give It To Me Baby! Essential Parts of the Referral Packet | Sarah Holman
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 08, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Let the Good Times Roll: Celebrating Dyslexia Legislation | Robbi Cooper
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 01, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Selective Assessment: Let's Be Choosy | Dan Miller
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 25, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Where Does Special Education Go to Die? | Nazzie Pater-Rov
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 18, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        There's No Such "Thing" as Dyslexia | Martin Bloomfield
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 11, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Legal Updates 2023
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 04, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Keep the Ball Rolling in Texas and Put MTSS to Work with DBI | Deanna Clemens 
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jun 03, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        At the End of the Day, What's Your Why? | Tammy Stephens
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 31, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        When Things Are Up in the Air, Where Do You Land on SLD? | Katie Maki
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 12, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Times a Waisten' Let's Bring Clockwork RTI to Texas Y'all! | Erica Lembke
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 05, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush, There's No Smoking Gun for SLD Identification | Ryan McGill
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 28, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        TeleAssessments | Anise Flowers
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 21, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Stay in the Loop, but Don't Get Tied up in Knots with the LDA | Monica McHale-Small
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 16, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Take Aways From TEDA 2023
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Mar 31, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Getting it Down to a Science | Sarah Brasiel
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Mar 10, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Assessing Children with Low Incident Disabilities | Marnee Loftin
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Mar 03, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Fork in the Road | Mark Shinn
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 17, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Are We Repeating History? | Edward Schultz
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 10, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        The Transition Assessment | Allison Hollis
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 03, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        The Test of Dyslexia from WPS | Nancy Mather & Ashley Arnold
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 27, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Introducing the 88th Legislative Session | Jim Walsh
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 20, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Are Subtypes of Dyslexia Real? | Jack Fletcher
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 13, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Welcome Back! News and Updates
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 06, 2023 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        NAEP Report Card: Are our norms still valid?
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Dec 09, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Rising AU Identifications | Amanda Gray & Wendi Johnson
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Dec 02, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Let's Make a Deal | Hannah Paulus
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Nov 18, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Should RF be an SLD?
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Nov 04, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Snapshot Day
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 28, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Stealth Dyslexia?
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 21, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        7 Considerations for a Good Observation
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 14, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Did TX Turn a New Leaf on the SLD Diagnosis Criteria? | Matthew Burns
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 07, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Is Special Education Working? Postponed due to hurricane in Florida
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 30, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        What is the RDSDP? | Amanda Tefertiller
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 23, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Why have a Prior Written Notice?
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 16, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Hacking Deficit Thinking by Being Sassy for Social Justice | Kelsie Reed
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Sep 02, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Test Your Knowledge of Assistive Technology Assessments | Penny Reed
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 26, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Assistive Technology Assessments- An Overview of the WADI
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 19, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Welcome Transfers to Special Education in Texas
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 12, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Rise in MDRs and Outcries Prompts US Dept of Ed. Initiatives
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Aug 05, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Potential changes to section 504?
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jul 29, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        News in Reading: Is Fountes and Pinnell the Problem?
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jul 22, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Efforts to Reduce Academic Risk at the Meadows Center | Dr. Sarah Powell.
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jun 17, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Bringing the Dyslexia Definition into Focus | Jeremy Miciak
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jun 03, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Pinpointing Needs with Academic Screeners | Nathan Clemens
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 27, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Curriculum Based Measures for Math | Amanda VanDerHeyden
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                May 06, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Beating the RTI Drum in Texas | Thea Woodruff
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 29, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        The State or RTi in Texas
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 22, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Introducing the 31 Executive Functions of the MEFS | George McCloskey
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 08, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        SLD, EL, or Both? How can we tell? | Eric Haas & Julie Esparza Brown
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Apr 01, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Using EasyCBM in our Evaluation Reports | Julie Alonzo
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Mar 04, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        The Dysgraphia Informal Writing Assessment | Cherry Lee
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 25, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders | Steven Feifer
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 21, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Navigating Recommendations for Intervention
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 11, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Fluid Reasoning in Minority Populations | Carl Romstad
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 04, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        The Implications of Executive Functioning
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 28, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Increasing our Professional Visability with Georgene Moon
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 21, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        CSEP 2.0 | Tammy Stephens & Sarah Holman
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 17, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Special Considerations for the ABAS III | Ashley Arnold
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jan 07, 2022 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Is Dyslexia Instruction Specially Designed Instruction?
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Dec 03, 2021 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Is Attention Part of Cognition? | Tray Stogsdill
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Nov 14, 2021 |