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A07639 Summary:

BILL NOA07639A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05867-A
 
SPONSORThiele
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §4401, Ed L
 
Amends the definition of a student with a disability.
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A07639 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A7639A
 
SPONSOR: Thiele
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to the definition of a student with a disability   PURPOSE: Relates to the definition of a "child with a disability" or "student with a disability."   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 4401 of the Education Law is amended to determine and define the disabilities that shall be included under the meaning of "child with a disability" or "student with a disability." Such disabilities shall include but not be limited to: Autism; Deafness; Deaf-Blindness; Emotional Disturbance; Learning Disability; Intellectual Disability; Multiple Disabilities; Orthopedic Impairment; Other Health Impairments; Speech or Language Impairment; Traumatic Brain Injury; Visual Impairment and Dyslexia.   JUSTIFICATION: This legislation places into statute the terms used in the definition of students with disabilities contained in the Regulations of the Commis- sioner of Education relating to Special Education and Students with Disabilities and includes the definition of Dyslexia within such provisions. Dyslexia's currently obscure and undefined placement in regulation ignores its immense prevalence in the population and creates the false impression that it happens with the rarity of aphasia and perceptual disabilities. Dyslexia is a dynamic phenomenon that makes an unimagina- tively constructed written language system difficult to process in the visually-empowered, differently-wired brain that dyslexics are blessed with. Students with dyslexia need evidence-based, effective intervention such as structured, multisensory language based educational inter- ventions in order to address the problem at hand through the proper individualized education plan. This legislation removes Dyslexia from its current placement within the definition of Learning Disability and recognizes it as a specific learn- ing disability that is neurobiological in origin. It uses the Interna- tional Dyslexia Association's definition of Dyslexia which was derived from a multi- year collaboration that included neuroscience experts from Yale and Georgetown Universities. It would ensure that students with Dyslexia receive the proper instruction and a quality education as currently afforded to other students.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2017: New Legislation   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: To be determined.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, it shall not affect any student's individualized education program that has been approved for the two thousand eighteen - two thousand nineteen school year; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision 1 of section 4401 of the education law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdivision pursuant to section 22 of chapter 352 of the laws of 2005, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.
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