Dyslexia Tutors in Wyoming

What families in Wyoming should know

Wyoming's ESA — the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act — is, on paper, a strong option for dyslexia families: $7,000 per student, explicitly allowing funds to be spent on tutoring services from an individual or a tutoring facility, not just private-school tuition. The problem is that the entire program is currently the subject of a major, unresolved lawsuit.

The Wyoming Education Association sued in 2025, arguing the ESA violates the state constitution's ban on using public school funds to support private education. A judge issued an injunction temporarily blocking payments in mid-2025; that injunction was later partially lifted, allowing some funds to flow again, but the underlying constitutional question is still being litigated in court as of 2026. In plain terms: money is moving again for now, but the legal ground this program stands on is genuinely shakier than in most other states, and that could change again with very little warning.

DC passed its own dyslexia law in 2020 (the Addressing Dyslexia and Other Reading Difficulties Amendment Act), requiring every school to screen kindergarten through 2nd grade students for reading difficulties, train all K-12 teachers in dyslexia awareness, and report their compliance to the city's education office every single year — a real, ongoing accountability mechanism most states don't have.

DC also has something unusual: a federally-funded (not city-funded) voucher called the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, the first federal school voucher program in the country, dating back to 2003. It's income-restricted to lower-income families and focused on private-school tuition rather than outside tutoring, and its funding has been a political football for two decades — defunded and refunded across different presidential administrations. If your family doesn't qualify by income, this program won't help; if it does, it's tuition assistance, not a tutoring fund.

Funding & financial assistance

Funding information is being reviewed for this state.

Tutor and therapist pathways

Wyoming's ESA law (W.S. § 21-2-906) requires the State Superintendent to establish a certification process for education service providers and maintain a public list of certified providers accepting new ESA students — a real, state-run vendor approval system tutors should be aware of if they want to accept ESA funds. Outside of that, Wyoming has no separate "dyslexia therapist" license; the national CALT, Barton, and Wilson certifications remain the broader standard. Wyoming also just began writing implementing rules for a brand-new 2026 literacy and dyslexia screening law, so expect further guidance to emerge over the next year.

Wyoming Statutes § 21-2-906 (Justia)

Washington, D.C.

DC Law 23-191 requires OSSE to provide dyslexia awareness training for all LEA educators and maintain a list of recommended screening instruments, but there's no separate "dyslexia therapist" credential for private practitioners. Private tutors need no license to operate in DC; the national CALT, Barton, and Wilson certifications remain the practical standard.

Dyslexia Legislation Overview — OSSE

Wyoming provider directory

These listings are provided as a starting point for your own research.

Sources

1. 1. Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act — EdChoice — www.edchoice.org/school-choice/programs/wyoming-education-savings-account-program
2. 2. Judge orders Wyoming to temporarily withhold school voucher payments — WyoFile — wyofile.com/judge-orders-wyoming-to-temporarily-withhold-school-voucher-payments
3. 3. Education Savings Account — Wyoming Dept. of Education (official) — edu.wyoming.gov/parents/education-savings-accounts
4. 1. D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — Wikipedia — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._Opportunity_Scholarship_Program
5. 2. Implementing DC's Dyslexia Legislation — DCPS — dcps.dc.gov/page/implementing-dc%E2%80%99s-dyslexia-legislation
6. 3. Dyslexia Legislation Overview — OSSE — osse.dc.gov/page/dyslexia