What happened
eSchool News reports that New York’s Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Task Force filed a report with 49 members, three public hearings and 14 recommendations, which the article says are recommendations rather than binding law. It also reports that Gov. Hochul signed legislation on Dec. 11, 2025, establishing a Center for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia inside the State Education Department.
Why it matters
For educators and L&D designers, the article’s core warning is that identification and intervention minutes are not the same as progress. It cites Dr. Sally Shaywitz’s Yale research, described in Overcoming Dyslexia, finding underactivity in posterior brain regions for rapid word recognition and roughly 2.5 times greater frontal-region activity in dyslexic readers. eSchool News argues that interventions often emphasize decoding, phonemic-awareness drills and timed fluency, which it says can produce early gains and then plateau if no alternate route supports reading and writing production.
What to do next
Before state guidance is available, districts and course teams can audit existing reading supports by asking what “channel” each activity relies on and whether oral reasoning or typed production is being used where handwriting or rapid word recognition is a barrier. Ask vendors and interventionists to explain the design of their programs, not only the standards they target. Treat New York’s center as an implementation development to monitor: the article says funding, local practice and what the center will do about post-identification plateaus remain unsettled.
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