MS accommodations for dyslexia

My DC has a rather severe form of dyslexia as well as dysgraphia. He had an IEP from mid 2nd grade on.
His accommodations included:

Electronic textbooks
Simple calculator
Learning Ally, Virginia AIM, BookShare
Extra time
Teacher notes so he could listen attentively to lectures
Kurzweil (probably outdated)
Spelling didn’t count unless it was spelling
Reader and scribe on assessments
Clip Art for any required drawing
No handwritten assignments -
Priority seat assignments
Shortened math assignments ad hoc - but that more of a time management system and he just didn’t do some of the easier homework problems as his major strength was in math.

At home we read and scribed for him too (by the end of high school he was fully on technology)

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08/01/2025 21:14

Subject: MS accommodations for dyslexia - FCPS

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Anonymous wrote:The FCPS is likely going to want to do some of their own testing. They shouldn't redo certain tests that have time frames on how often they can be done. They will particularly want to do ones that show Academic level. I know for my daughters they did the KTEA. Not sure if that one goes up to middle school or if there is another educational level testing tool. The one thing to note is they have 60 business days to do the testing. It could be a while to get an IEP in place. You might see if you can get a 504 as interim at least for extra time and have them continue on the IEP process. We got our original 504 with our private testing and no additional testing but that was COvid times. Good Luck. Are your working with your school or the summer clinic?

I just walked out of the LSC and this is exactly where they landed, a 504. DD has made it work this far but as the words get longer, the content denser she is getting further and further behind… she failed the SOL the last two years.

They explained 504 would be best first because she will have accommodations on day one of the school year but that it could be revisited if the accommodations are not making a difference. I can understand that.

We had so much back and forth that we could not complete the meeting and have to have a second part in two weeks but I did waive the testing check box so that we could move forward with 504 for the beginning of the school year.

We were always planning on getting a private OG tutor but I am certainly frustrated. I brought up concerns so many times to teachers over the years regarding her reading but kept being told “she is fine…”
DD is a VERY hard worker and she swam against the current for YEARS at school to compensate, I want to help her get what she deserves. Even with the private testing results I felt the committee was dismissive because she has done “fine” except for SOL’s… we seem to have a fundamental difference of what “doing fine” means. To me it seems they are overlooking the incredibly amount of work DD has to put in relation to her peers, the tutoring and the work we do with her at home. Sigh!

This isn't right, suggest you hire an attorney

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08/02/2025 09:45

Subject: MS accommodations for dyslexia - FCPS

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The FCPS is likely going to want to do some of their own testing. They shouldn't redo certain tests that have time frames on how often they can be done. They will particularly want to do ones that show Academic level. I know for my daughters they did the KTEA. Not sure if that one goes up to middle school or if there is another educational level testing tool. The one thing to note is they have 60 business days to do the testing. It could be a while to get an IEP in place. You might see if you can get a 504 as interim at least for extra time and have them continue on the IEP process. We got our original 504 with our private testing and no additional testing but that was COvid times. Good Luck. Are your working with your school or the summer clinic?

I just walked out of the LSC and this is exactly where they landed, a 504. DD has made it work this far but as the words get longer, the content denser she is getting further and further behind… she failed the SOL the last two years.

They explained 504 would be best first because she will have accommodations on day one of the school year but that it could be revisited if the accommodations are not making a difference. I can understand that.

We had so much back and forth that we could not complete the meeting and have to have a second part in two weeks but I did waive the testing check box so that we could move forward with 504 for the beginning of the school year.

We were always planning on getting a private OG tutor but I am certainly frustrated. I brought up concerns so many times to teachers over the years regarding her reading but kept being told “she is fine…”
DD is a VERY hard worker and she swam against the current for YEARS at school to compensate, I want to help her get what she deserves. Even with the private testing results I felt the committee was dismissive because she has done “fine” except for SOL’s… we seem to have a fundamental difference of what “doing fine” means. To me it seems they are overlooking the incredibly amount of work DD has to put in relation to her peers, the tutoring and the work we do with her at home. Sigh!

This isn't right, suggest you hire an attorney

Suggestion - I’m assuming this is through summer clinic. Go back to the LSC at her school in a few weeks and ask for testing. No one on the team at summer clinic knows your child and it makes a big difference.