How do you know when its time to try a SN school?

[Anonymous]

We suspected my daughter may have dyslexia in kindergarten, did LB over the summer and got official diagnosis in 1st grade. We pushed in intensive OG tutoring for 2 years and in 3rd grade we were able to get her a spot at a school specializing in dyslexia.

One of my major regrets is that I wasted that money on LB instead of tuition. The positive impact on my child of being in a school where they get her and can accommodate/ remediate across all subjects (without me fighting tooth and nail every week for IEP services) has been extraordinary. Her anxiety and depression is gone. She no longer sees herself as broken, but different.

I will make my last payment on our LB finance plan this summer. We spent approximately 20k in an 8 week program (4 hours a day). It helped, but it was far from enough for my child.

Go and tour the schools- it is better to intervene sooner than later.

[Anonymous]

If she's dyslexic, don't keep her in the bi lingual program...it doesn't mean that she won't be able to learn a second language, of course she will, but you need to deal with the dyslexia first...

Lab School for Dyslexia.

[Anonymous]

Try the Atlantic Seaboard Dyslexic Education Center. ASDEC -- much less expensive than LMB and their people are really trained.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing in the DC area as an SN school that specializes in language processing issues. Would that there were! I would send my child there in an instant.

What the what?

Kingsbury, Lab right in DC. For older kids Siena, Chelsea, and Commonwealth.

There is no way a child with complex communication issues (severe expressive language issues) is going to make it at those schools.

I know a few families that went to Lab (or I think it was Lab) for language issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing in the DC area as an SN school that specializes in language processing issues. Would that there were! I would send my child there in an instant.

What the what?

Kingsbury, Lab right in DC. For older kids Siena, Chelsea, and Commonwealth.

There is no way a child with complex communication issues (severe expressive language issues) is going to make it at those schools.

Again, what the what? My kid goes to one of the above schools. Lots of classmates are of the same profile. We also have friends at the other schools listed, again with similar profiles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in a similar situation but my daughter is in 3rd grade and has been a proficient, if not above grade level reader, so what she has is known as "stealth dyslexia" and is primarily affecting her spelling (abysmal) and writing (very impoverished, compared with her other abilities).

She is doing LMB this summer 6 weeks and then we will decide what to do for next year (4th grade).

I am contemplating pulling her out for all of 4th grade and homeschooling her -- by having her go to LMB almost every day -- and then doing the other subjects myself. But again, I am going to see how this summer goes.

May I ask, how much does LMB cost during the school year? The website is giving me no info.

What do they offer for the summer? And what's the cost? Couldn't find the info on the website

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing in the DC area as an SN school that specializes in language processing issues. Would that there were! I would send my child there in an instant.

What the what?

Kingsbury, Lab right in DC. For older kids Siena, Chelsea, and Commonwealth.

There is no way a child with complex communication issues (severe expressive language issues) is going to make it at those schools.

"Language Processing issues" and "complex communication issues" are *very* different things. Language processing can certainly be adequately addressed at the aforementioned privates. Yes, "complex communication issue" would require a different level of service, though I'm not sure what specifically you are including in this description of issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in a similar situation but my daughter is in 3rd grade and has been a proficient, if not above grade level reader, so what she has is known as "stealth dyslexia" and is primarily affecting her spelling (abysmal) and writing (very impoverished, compared with her other abilities).

She is doing LMB this summer 6 weeks and then we will decide what to do for next year (4th grade).

I am contemplating pulling her out for all of 4th grade and homeschooling her -- by having her go to LMB almost every day -- and then doing the other subjects myself. But again, I am going to see how this summer goes.

May I ask, how much does LMB cost during the school year? The website is giving me no info.

To the 12:02 poster, above, may I ask how you discovered your daughter's "stealth" dyslexia? Our 2nd grade daughter sounds so similar. We had her tested and they indicated potential Executive Functioning deficits, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and an "ADHD Profile", but not dyslexia. I could be totally off, but I am convinced she is a "stealth" dyslexic, as you say, and is just presenting differently. Her brother, father and grandfather are dyslexic, as are several cousins on the paternal side. I have a strong feeling she is just not a "prototypical" dyslexic. She did not struggle in acquiring early language or phonemic skills, learned how to read and write basically on schedule, etc., but since mid-1st grade has struggled to develop any fluency, abhors reading and writing, avoids them at all costs, and there is a melt-down every time we ask her to do her reading/writing homework. Her spelling is abysmal and her writing is very impoverished compared with her other abilities, just as you say. Her FSIQ is in the 97th% - but her sentences, ability to comprehend a question and come up with and spell and write a fitting response are about akin to what I see from kids in our son's Kindergarten class. We have flagged this for the school many times, but she is staying "on grade level" and they say they see no issue - though she is "staying on grade level" with intensive academic therapy 3x/week for 2 years running now.

Would you mind sharing how you came to your understanding with your daughter? Was it through testing with a particular center, or otherwise? TIA.