LCPS and dyslexia

[Anonymous]

Any LCPS high schools have a decent reputation for supporting kids with dyslexia?

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately LCPS is pretty bad on dyslexia in general. Can’t speak to the HS’s but most parents leave for private or get outside tutoring.

[Anonymous]

No. All public districts are bad at supporting dyslexia. It is not a widely understood disability and teachers receive no training in it or how to support students with it. The goals in IEPs for students with dyslexia are ridiculous. Things like “will self edit a paragraph to have zero spelling errors” in first quarter of 9th grade. Just nonsensical. The only kids I have ever seen truly make progress with dyslexia have gotten private tutoring at LindamoodBell or Orton Gillingham.

[Anonymous]

LCPS offered Orton Gillingham training pre-covid (not sure about currently) so I'd ask at the HS you are looking at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. All public districts are bad at supporting dyslexia. It is not a widely understood disability and teachers receive no training in it or how to support students with it. The goals in IEPs for students with dyslexia are ridiculous. Things like “will self edit a paragraph to have zero spelling errors” in first quarter of 9th grade. Just nonsensical. The only kids I have ever seen truly make progress with dyslexia have gotten private tutoring at LindamoodBell or Orton Gillingham.

This might have been true 5 years ago but structured literacy is in right now. Teacher must complete dyslexia training to apply for recertification. I am a reading specialist in NOVA and we are all OG or Wilson certified. I know teachers in neighboring divisions are getting certified in OG or Wilson as well. Also, schools are using structured literacy for general education instruction in the primary grades to support foundational literacy (phonics, phonemic awareness, spelling). Anyhow, you don’t need to look to the private industry for an OG or Wilson certified tutor anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. All public districts are bad at supporting dyslexia. It is not a widely understood disability and teachers receive no training in it or how to support students with it. The goals in IEPs for students with dyslexia are ridiculous. Things like “will self edit a paragraph to have zero spelling errors” in first quarter of 9th grade. Just nonsensical. The only kids I have ever seen truly make progress with dyslexia have gotten private tutoring at LindamoodBell or Orton Gillingham.

This might have been true 5 years ago but structured literacy is in right now. Teacher must complete dyslexia training to apply for recertification. I am a reading specialist in NOVA and we are all OG or Wilson certified. I know teachers in neighboring divisions are getting certified in OG or Wilson as well. Also, schools are using structured literacy for general education instruction in the primary grades to support foundational literacy (phonics, phonemic awareness, spelling). Anyhow, you don’t need to look to the private industry for an OG or Wilson certified tutor anymore.

The problem is a lot of schools only have one reading specialist. Gen Ed English teachers aren’t trained in structured literacy or dyslexia. And if the reading specialist can’t see all kids in the school, that’s an issue. At my last school our reading specialist was completely misused to do standardized test prep and recovery for kids who had not passed SOLs. I taught kids with dyslexia who never received intervention because the school was using her to do testing .