NY State Senate Bill 2019-S5608

Senate Bill S5608

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing interventions for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities

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2019-S5608 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7210
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Add §4407-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S1926, A556
2023-2024: S1038, A460

2019-S5608 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities.

2019-S5608 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S5608

SPONSOR: JACKSON
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the education law, in relation to
curricula for students identified as dyslexic or as having any other
phonological learning difference or disability

 
PURPOSE:

This bill sets forth specific curricula requirements for the teaching of
students with dyslexia or other related phonological disabilities or
differences.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of this bill amends the education law by adding a new
section 4407-a that requires that the board of education or trustees of
each school district provide intervention services for students identi-
fied to have dyslexia or a related phonological difference or disabili-
ty.

The next paragraph sets the requirements for the curricula a school
adopts. It also requires each school to inform parents about the
services given to their child and requires each school district to
submit an annual report to the Department of Education and regents.
This report must include information on their curriculum and invention
services.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

One in five students has dyslexia or another phonemic awareness issue
that requires for them to learn to read through a directed multi-sensory
sequential phonics or Orton-Gillingham approach. The current education
system teaches reading with a balanced literacy approach, which is
essentially whole language by another name and ineffective at teaching
reading to the roughly 20% of students who have dyslexia or another
phonemic based learning difference. This bill will require schools to
give those students who need specialized instruction in reading the
resources they need to read comprehensively and effectively. This bill
lays out specific guidelines for the instruction of students with dysle-
xia. It also requires that schools inform parents of the intervention
services their student is receiving. This allows parents to ensure their
child is being given the education that they are entitled to.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S5608 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5608
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to curricula for students
   identified as dyslexic or as having any  other  phonological  learning
   difference or disability

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 4407-a
 to read as follows:
   § 4407-A. SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN  WITH
 DYSLEXIA OR OTHER PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES OR DISABILITIES. 1. THE BOARD
 OF  EDUCATION  OR  TRUSTEES OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL PROVIDE INTER-
 VENTION SERVICES FOR ANY STUDENT WHO IS IDENTIFIED  AS  DYSLEXIC  OR  AS
 HAVING  ANY  OTHER  PHONOLOGICAL LEARNING DIFFERENCE OR DISABILITY. SUCH
 INTERVENTION SERVICES SHALL INCLUDE A MULTI-SENSORY SEQUENTIAL  PHONICS-
 BASED CURRICULUM, WHICH SHALL BE TAUGHT IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER SPECIAL
 INSTRUCTION.
   2.  CURRICULA  ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION
 SHALL:
   A. INCLUDE EXPLICIT AND DIRECT INSTRUCTION THAT IS SYSTEMATIC, SEQUEN-
 TIAL, CUMULATIVE, AND FOLLOWS A LOGICAL PLAN OF PRESENTING THE ALPHABET-
 IC PRINCIPLE THAT TARGETS THE SPECIFIC NEEDS  OF  EACH  STUDENT  WITHOUT
 PRESUMING ANY PRIOR SKILLS OR KNOWLEDGE;
   B.  INCLUDE  MEANING-BASED INSTRUCTION DIRECTED AT PURPOSEFUL READING,
 WITH EMPHASIS ON STUDENT COMPREHENSION; AND
   C. BE STRUCTURED TO PROVIDE INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION  TAILORED  TO  EACH
 STUDENT, OR TO A SMALL GROUP SETTING OF TEN STUDENTS OR LESS.
   3.  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  OR TRUSTEES SHALL INFORM EACH STUDENT'S
 PARENT OR PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION OF THE INTERVENTION SERVICES BEING
 IMPLEMENTED UNDER THIS SECTION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11054-01-9

 S. 5608                             2
 
   4. EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL PROVIDE THE  DEPARTMENT  AND  REGENTS  A
 DETAILED  REPORT ON ITS CURRICULUM AND INTERVENTION SERVICES ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION BY THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF JULY ANNUALLY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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