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Citing phone calls from frustrated parents, a Senate committee discussed a bill to help identify and effectively teach dyslexic students Thursday.

Sen. Steve Abrams, R-Arkansas City, the author of the bill, said the concerns were raised last year as well, but state education officials said dyslexia is a medical condition and therefore difficult for a teacher to diagnose.

So this year he rewrote the bill to focus on aiding students who have already been diagnosed by a medical professional.

“I think that’s probably the biggest frustration the parents have talked to me about,” Abrams said during a committee hearing Thursday. “For those that have gone and received a medical diagnosis of dyslexia, for them to be ignored by the school system, that is a frustrating situation. To say, ‘You don’t know, the doctor doesn’t know, we know better about how to train your child,’ — that is exceptionally frustrating for a lot of these parents.”

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