Arlington Diocese schools that "do" dyslexia well???

[Anonymous]

What Arlington Diocesan schools accommodate dyslexia well? We are looking for our rising 6th grader who has spent two years at Oakwood. He was previously at St. Joe's and we are trying to figure out whether he can go back there or not. Does anyone know anything about the new principal and her openness to dyslexia accommodations?

Or has anyone else had good experience at other Diocesan schools with dyslexia?

Off the top of my head, some schools we would be open to (distance-wise) include but are not limited to St. Joe's, St. Veronica's, St. Timothy's, St. Luke's, Our Lady of Hope, St. John's, maybe OLGC? maybe St. Mark's? Any others?

PLEASE tell me there is some school in the Diocese that does dyslexia well. ??

Thank you.....

[Anonymous]

What kind of accommodations are you seeking?

[Anonymous]

We are not seeking any one accommodation in particular. Do you have any personal experience with any of the schools and dyslexia?

[Anonymous]

No one has had a good experience to share about their child's experience with dyslexia in any of the Arlington Diocesan schools? ?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, that second question mark was actually a sad face with a tear rolling down its cheek. . .

[Anonymous]

Be patient, OP. You’ve posted five times in six hours about small Catholic schools on the edge of Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. That’s a pretty small pool of DCUM readers that might have anything to offer so be patient and see if anyone has anything to offer.

[Anonymous]

Olv in the Palisades right over key bridge does dyslexia well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Olv in the Palisades right over key bridge does dyslexia well

Thank you so much. I will look into that. Thank you for sharing. I really appreciate it.

If anyone else has any experience in any of the Arlington Diocese school, also would love to hear about that too. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Bumping this question. We are looking for schools with teachers and/or learning specialists certified in Orton Gillingham and demonstrated history speech language pathologists (privately paid by parents) coming into the school to work with students.

[Anonymous]

Maybe try posting in the private schools forum and see if you get more hits?

You could also create a form email and email all the schools you are looking at. Start by asking if they have a resource program and whether the resource is trained in Orton-Gillingham. That might whittle the list down some.

In my experience with the Catholic schools in ADW in MoCo, the schools better prepared to serve kids with dyslexia will have admissions people and a principal who will tell you point blank whether they think they can serve these kids or not. If they say yes, probe more regarding accommodations and resource services. But the “no” answers will also help you whittle down the list. Also, the better Catholic schools for SN sometimes seem to be the smaller or less popular ones. The popular schools can have a one size fits all approach.

Our school in MoCo has been great. The Catholic curriculum is generally a good fit for these kids. Still, we have supplemented with tutoring or EF support of one kind or another most years. But that supplementation was 3-4x per week in public school and it is 1x per week in Catholic school. It has been a decent but imperfect solution. I doubt that it compares to Oakwood which looks marvelous from the outside….

[Anonymous]

The catholic schools will not allow OG tutors to come into the school. Most k-8 have learning specialists who will provide support, but it will not replace the OG tutoring that you will need outside. I will say that even with outside tutoring it will still be way cheaper than going to a 50K specialized dyslexia school.
High schools do not remediate dyslexia. Most will provide accommodations.

[Anonymous]

My child had a great experience at St. Mark. They are very supportive of children with differences. You will have to ask current parents about the climate there now however as it has been a few years.