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Thank you Dr. Pearson for bringing this to light. Across the country I was schools have overlooked comma intentionally delayed and I see the education system to be broken when it comes to recognizing the signs and symptoms of dyslexia, and other comorbid disabilities. Literacy and math across our nation is sadly below where it should be. Not only are children learning, but there is no educational development for teachers one in college and later on for professional development to learn about the most common learning disability. 1 and 5 are dyslexic and approximately 1 and 20 if not more have dyscalculia my which is a learning challenge in math. I see it as educational malpractice but not only our teachers are not able to identify these children, and our medical providers are also at a loss for labeling dyslexia in Rhode Island. We have many children that have behavioral problems which is systemic often from a Learning Disability. I see this is educational malpractice we don't use the label therefore we can't give the scientific evidence-based remediation. We continue to fail our children further by withholding and eliminating elementary schools to have recess. This Bill has been talked about much at the state house and we continue to fight. We need the Department of Education to take their blindfolds off. It should be noted that there are not more children with a DD now than there were before Kama rather I depriving our children of the necessary tools and taking away the most important right such as recess Kama we see the behaviors exploding. Whose fault is this?

As a by-product of not being given the tools and made to feel inferior two other students, anxiety, anger, depression, and other self-harming tendencies along with suicide are much higher for dyslexic individuals. And we can look at our jail system, which is full (85%) of functionally illiterate people who cannot fill out job applications. What kind of society are we perpetuating.