Bill Text: NY K00880 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 12, 2022, as Dyslexia Awareness Day in the State of New York

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-19)

Status: (Passed) 2022-05-11 - adopted [K00880 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-K00880-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 880

BY: M. of A. Rules (Simon)

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        May 12, 2022, 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 which 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 phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, vocabulary and  comprehension,  the  five  pillars  of
reading identified in 2000 by the National Reading Panel of the National
Academy of Sciences; and

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

  WHEREAS, Educators familiar with imparting to our children  literacy
skills built on the five pillars of reading can ensure that the benefits
of  good  literacy, 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  dyslexia  affects  a  high  percentage of our
struggling readers, and it is important that we learn to  recognize  and
to  address this learning difference 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 May 12, 2022, 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.