How do people afford dyslexia?

[Anonymous]

I'm a special ed lawyer. When a parent calls my office with a diagnosis of dyslexia, more than nine times out of ten that parent is upper middle class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t spend $5k on the evaluation for one thing.

and how do you do that? Different poster but would love to hear the alternatives.

you get the free evals the school will give you adn that's it

[Anonymous]

We got financial assistance and went to McLean School. We were spending so much on private tutoring and I w

[Anonymous]

Sorry, hit send too soon. We were spending so much money on private tutoring I was thinking of hiring an advocate to deal with our public school. But started to explore alternatives - Siena, Lab, and McLean. We were fortunate to receive financial assistance.

[Anonymous]

How much does it cost to get certified as a OG tutor? If I was starting in early elementary or had more than 1 kid that needed help, I’d at least do the math to figure out if there was a positive ROI there.

[Anonymous]

When you choose not to pay for, or cannot afford, intervention for learning disabilities, you severely curtail the earning potential of the child in question.

The families who cannot afford evaluations and therapies can teach their own child how to read if they're intelligent and have the time and energy. It's all based on phonemes, and from there, identifying where exactly your kid has issues. It takes a LOT of time to work on it by yourself.

The families who could afford to remediate their children's LDs but choose not to (usually because they're too proud to admit their kid has issues) don't realize how badly they're impacting their children's future. My best friend did this. Her kid is college-age now but is not college material. The parents are having serious regrets.

[Anonymous]

I've spent over 150K so far and will be spending another 80K this year- and it's only been less than 2 years since my kid was diagnosed with dyslexia, autism and ADHD. We tried OG tutoring the first year and it did not help him much. His dyslexia is very severe so he has to go to Lab School. The dyslexia remediation/schooling is much more expensive than the autism for us

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t spend $5k on the evaluation for one thing.

and how do you do that? Different poster but would love to hear the alternatives.

you get the free evals the school will give you adn that's it

If I had waited for that to happen back in 1st grade when I had suspicions, I’d still be waiting. There are a million reasons they won’t test, especially if the kid’s IQ is high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much does it cost to get certified as a OG tutor? If I was starting in early elementary or had more than 1 kid that needed help, I’d at least do the math to figure out if there was a positive ROI there.

Probably one of the cheapest ways to learn the OG method is to subscribe to the Barton Reading & Spelling Program, and do that with your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got financial assistance and went to McLean School. We were spending so much on private tutoring and I w

News flash- schools don’t make a dyelxia diagnosis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t spend $5k on the evaluation for one thing.

and how do you do that? Different poster but would love to hear the alternatives.

you get the free evals the school will give you adn that's it

If I had waited for that to happen back in 1st grade when I had suspicions, I’d still be waiting. There are a million reasons they won’t test, especially if the kid’s IQ is high.

DUH. I'm just saying, if you have no money, that's your ONLY OPTION.

[Anonymous]

Low-income kids don't suffer quite as much as middle-class kids, though. Almost all low-income kids have Medicaid which provides PT, OT, speech therapy, etc. Are those services provided the best available? No, but it is something.

What really hurts the low-income kids is not having support at home. I used to work in a VA school system with a large population of low-income families. The kids who thrived the most were those who had supportive parents to also go over therapies with the kids at home and do extra work.

It's pathetic that not all kids are eligible for Medicaid in the US. Private insurance that so many middle-class moms and dads have through their jobs either covers no extra services or very few sessions, like under 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much does it cost to get certified as a OG tutor? If I was starting in early elementary or had more than 1 kid that needed help, I’d at least do the math to figure out if there was a positive ROI there.

Probably one of the cheapest ways to learn the OG method is to subscribe to the Barton Reading & Spelling Program, and do that with your child.

DP. Also All About Reading. It was formulated with home schooling in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t spend $5k on the evaluation for one thing.

and how do you do that? Different poster but would love to hear the alternatives.

you get the free evals the school will give you adn that's it

If I had waited for that to happen back in 1st grade when I had suspicions, I’d still be waiting. There are a million reasons they won’t test, especially if the kid’s IQ is high.

DP - IME, it's the opposite, since most public school systems still use the discrepancy model. It's the kids who are otherwise very smart and who struggle with reading who get attention in public schools without much advocacy from parents. That describes my dyslexic kid to a T. Our public ES was fully onboard with Tier 2 intervention, then testing, and now a behemoth of an IEP (we'll see how well it's implemented).

The kids who truly fall through the cracks are the ones with average-ish IQ, because the system doesn't see much of a discrepancy between that and struggling to read. That's a failure of the system, but it's very common. They just keep getting promoted and everyone thinks they're just "average," not, hey, this kid really can't read and gee, maybe that's impacting their academic performance.

There are also free and low-cost programs based on Phono-Graphix with strong evidence (the Reading Reflex book and also materials through EBLI and Reading Simplified). As a parent, they've been a good supplement to the other services DS has.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t spend $5k on the evaluation for one thing.

and how do you do that? Different poster but would love to hear the alternatives.

you get the free evals the school will give you adn that's it

lol what planet?