Bill Text: NY K00955 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 14, 2024, as Dyslexia Awareness Day in the State of New York

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-9)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-14 - adopted [K00955 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-K00955-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 955

BY: M. of A. Simon

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        March 14, 2024, as Dyslexia  Awareness  Day  in  the
        State of New York

  WHEREAS,  It is the sense of this Legislative Body that the State of
New York is committed to equal educational opportunities by  identifying
obstacles  to  educational  advancement  and  helping  to  remove  those
obstacles; and

  WHEREAS, Dyslexia, which often runs in families, is a language-based
learning disability that is neurobiological  in  origin  and  interferes
with  language  processing,  accurate  and/or  fluent  word recognition,
spelling  and  decoding  abilities  and  reading  comprehension  despite
average or above average intelligence; and

  WHEREAS,  Dyslexia  varies in severity ranging from mild to profound
and is characterized by a combination of difficulties with  phonological
and orthographic processing leading to difficulties in reading, writing,
spelling, handwriting and/or math which can create a wide gap between an
individual's  intellectual  ability  and  their academic and/or personal
achievement; and

  WHEREAS, Dyslexia is identifiable as early as 4-6 years of  age  and
early intervention is beneficial as the negative consequences are highly
preventable through effective, direct instruction in the five pillars of
reading identified in 2000 by the National Reading Panel of the National
Academy  of  Sciences,  namely  phonemic  awareness,  phonics,  fluency,
vocabulary and comprehension; and

  WHEREAS, Dyslexia can affect anyone,  regardless  of  race,  gender,
culture or socioeconomic status and impacts up to 20% of the population;
and

  WHEREAS, Imparting to our children literacy skills built on the five
pillars  of  reading  can  ensure  that  the  benefits  of good literacy
instruction will accrue to improved educational and  life  outcomes  for
New York's children; and

  WHEREAS,  Literacy  skills for everyone is an important goal for the
State of New York and because dyslexia affects a high percentage of  our
struggling  readers,  it is important that we recognize and address this
issue head on so that each person in New York has the opportunity to  be
able  to  learn,  read  and  spell  proficiently  and  reach  their full
potential; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
memorialize  Governor  Kathy  Hochul  to  proclaim  March  14,  2024, as
Dyslexia Awareness Day in the State of New York; and be it further

  RESOLVED, That a copy of this  Resolution,  suitably  engrossed,  be
transmitted  to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of New
York.