Senate Bill S4410

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to language equality and acquisition for deaf children

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S4410 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5772
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §4214, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S1930, A3866

2019-S4410 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of education and the New York state school for the deaf to jointly select language developmental milestones from existing standardized norms for purposes of developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy.

2019-S4410 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4410 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4410
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 11, 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 language equality  and
   acquisition for deaf children
 
   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  4214
 to read as follows:
   §  4214.  LANGUAGE EQUALITY AND ACQUISITION FOR DEAF CHILDREN. 1.  THE
 DEPARTMENT AND THE NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL  FOR  THE  DEAF  SHALL  JOINTLY
 SELECT  LANGUAGE  DEVELOPMENTAL  MILESTONES  FROM  EXISTING STANDARDIZED
 NORMS, PURSUANT TO THE PROCESS SPECIFIED IN  SUBDIVISION  FOUR  OF  THIS
 SECTION,  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  DEVELOPING A RESOURCE FOR USE BY PARENTS TO
 MONITOR AND TRACK DEAF AND  HARD-OF-HEARING  CHILDREN'S  EXPRESSIVE  AND
 RECEPTIVE  LANGUAGE  ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES TOWARD ENGLISH
 LITERACY. SUCH PARENT RESOURCE SHALL:
   A. INCLUDE THE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES SELECTED PURSUANT  TO
 THE PROCESS SPECIFIED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION;
   B.  BE  APPROPRIATE  FOR USE, IN BOTH CONTENT AND ADMINISTRATION, WITH
 DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING CHILDREN FROM  BIRTH  TO  FIVE  YEARS  OF  AGE,
 INCLUSIVE,  WHO  USE  BOTH  OR  ONE  OF  THE  LANGUAGES OF AMERICAN SIGN
 LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,  "ENGLISH"  INCLUDES
 SPOKEN  ENGLISH,  WRITTEN  ENGLISH,  OR  ENGLISH  WITH THE USE OF VISUAL
 SUPPLEMENTS;
   C. PRESENT THE DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES IN TERMS OF  TYPICAL  DEVELOP-
 MENT OF ALL CHILDREN, BY AGE RANGE;
   D. BE WRITTEN FOR CLARITY AND EASE OF USE BY PARENTS;
   E.  BE  ALIGNED  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT'S  EXISTING  INFANT, TODDLER, AND
 PRESCHOOL GUIDELINES, THE EXISTING INSTRUMENT USED TO ASSESS THE  DEVEL-
 OPMENT  OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES PURSUANT TO FEDERAL LAW, AND STATE
 STANDARDS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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