Bill Cassidy

We will talk to the appropriators and try and get you all more.

The Cassidy-Murphy bill focuses on the need for evidence-based practices.

The Cassidy-Murphy bill creates an assistant secretary for mental health specifically charged to do this job, the interagency coordination, which has not been done since 2009.

It is against the law. Sometimes, I hate to say this, it may take a lawsuit.

I would like to see that type of requirement changed.

I also would like to thank Senator Bill Cassidy and his wife for what they do to help those who struggle with dyslexia.

All including Republicans and Democrats must come together on this human issue; dyslexia is not, and should not, be used as a political issue.

Dyslexia is the most common of the learning disabilities.

Last week, a resolution passed in the Senate that Senator Mikulski of Maryland and I passed.

I started a congressional Dyslexia Caucus to raise awareness of those affected.

This morning, we are having a hearing titled 'Developmental Perspective on Testing for Dyslexia' that will highlight the importance of early identification of students with dyslexia.

If they are not accommodated and their needs not addressed, then it is not an arc toward success, it is a descent into a frustrated life.

If everyone is thinking like this, the dyslexic is the out-of-the-box thinker who thinks so creatively when others are just in a path.

Derrius, you were diagnosed later in life, and frankly you recounted how you had a real struggle prior to that point.

You can look at poor reading rates in 3d grade and predict the number of prison cells you need 20 years later.

What is the cost to society of the child not being identified and not receiving what that child needs?

The absence of early screening intervention ends up having persistent effects into adolescence.

I think we have an obligation to our children and to our teachers to identify this at the earliest possible time.

Again, could you just speak to that?

Let me also ask you to comment. Derrius' testimony spoke to how once he was identified, it sounds like it was boot camp for reading.

It just strikes me as somehow odd, because I've heard that in Louisiana people entering prison are screened for dyslexia.

Waiting is harmful and not acceptable.

I congratulate Senators Cassidy and Mikulski who have come together to sponsor the bipartisan Senate Resolution 275.

Dyslexia is not, and should not, be used as a political issue.

Dyslexia cuts across all boundaries--ethnic, racial, SES, gender, national and political.