Addressing Dyslexia in New York State Public Schools

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We need more!!!!

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This is so important for way to many people. 1 in 5 people... that is a large number. This needs to happen.

This is really important to all parents!

this is desperately needed

Purple

Please support dyslexia.

It's real, it's here, it's time to support patents and students for success!!!!

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we on Staten Island know much about Dyslexia in our public schools, ...Show You Support, sign so the Albany passes these Bills.... Progress begins with you.

Long over due!!!

Philippines

My foster-adopt child was not identified until 10th grade, even though one would have had to have been blind not to have seen his academic struggles first hand in the classroom. His 8th grade homeroom teacher was even the AIS and his English teacher, so there was no way for her not to have known and seen his struggles with reading and writing, yet he was never offered AIS (we had to beg for it and then it was not offered to the end of the school year a few weeks before it ended, and ironically was informed by the child how helpful they found it but also how it was useless to have been put into the class at the very end of the school year. Followed by totally ignoring it altogether in HS and then denying him access to the LRE by allowing a transfer out of the co-taught English and other classes. If I had only known about OCR and 504 at that time, we would have been able to file a complaint that might have made a difference. We instead were only aware of IDEA & state complaints, which are very costly and drawn out and less effective means of addressing issues for struggling learners. It seems that once these children are identified as "SpecialEd" kids they drop all expectations and their own responsibilites to teach these students, because the bar is lowered and they only teach to that lower bar. Our child was sitting under the IDEA umbrella in Special Ed for all intents the entire time in sprimary and secondary school and never was provided with appropriate remedial instruction methods that were known to work. We finally pulled him out of traditional school and with supports and services under 504 and ADA, he instead enrolled him in college classes, starting after the time he was identified by an independent neuro-psychologist to be on the Dyslexia spectrum- and even after she came to 2 CSE meetings to push for the proper instructional services and they still REFUSED to provide the suggested OG instruction (Wilson Reading) ironically which they had been advertising

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This is imperative to our children's education.

Hope this help