Dyslexia in MCPS

[Anonymous]

Our third grader was diagnosed with specific learning disability/dyslexia at the end of second grade. The data used to diagnose him came from testing MCPS did, which was thorough and IMO an accurate reflection of his strengths and weaknesses. He has a hefty IEP that's being implemented this year, including 90 minutes of daily reading instruction (mostly small group and not all at once), along with other accommodations. We may need to supplement more if they insist on OG only, but I'm hoping for flexibility to use more accelerated evidence-based approaches.

We haven't had to fight the school at all, yet. They implemented an evidence-based Tier 2 intervention last year and then we moved to the evaluation/IEP when he failed to respond to that. So, apparently our school is a unicorn, but in our experience, at least MCPS can and does identify "dyslexia" and is helping to remediate it.

[Anonymous]

I can’t even find dyslexia or specific reading disability mentioned on the MCPS website.

Can anyone direct me to anything published by MCPS that talks about what they do for kids who struggle in reading?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to resurrect it to ask whether this has improved at all.

My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. She also has a high IQ (136). She’s going into 2nd grade.

We’re currently paying nearly $100,000/year for private school and tutoring. It’s helping, but is a financial stranglehold.

I know MD passed legislation mandating dyslexia screening. Has that improved the situation at all, or are we better off just continuing to pay for private school and tutoring?

Um, tiniest violin ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to resurrect it to ask whether this has improved at all.

My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. She also has a high IQ (136). She’s going into 2nd grade.

We’re currently paying nearly $100,000/year for private school and tutoring. It’s helping, but is a financial stranglehold.

I know MD passed legislation mandating dyslexia screening. Has that improved the situation at all, or are we better off just continuing to pay for private school and tutoring?

Um, tiniest violin ever.

Making fun of someone for struggling to pay for support for their SN child. A new low for DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Mcps doesn't do dyslexia well. Many times they don't evaluate kids until they are 1-2 years below grade level. At that point it becomes very hard to catch up. Sadly, many of these kids will remain illiterate or with low literacy. Problem #2 is that even when thry identify kids early with dysleixa in mcps, they don't have the resources to adequately remediate the disability. The child will receive heavy tech accommodations (text to speech) because again, the disability is not treated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to resurrect it to ask whether this has improved at all.

My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. She also has a high IQ (136). She’s going into 2nd grade.

We’re currently paying nearly $100,000/year for private school and tutoring. It’s helping, but is a financial stranglehold.

I know MD passed legislation mandating dyslexia screening. Has that improved the situation at all, or are we better off just continuing to pay for private school and tutoring?

Um, tiniest violin ever.

Making fun of someone for struggling to pay for support for their SN child. A new low for DCUM.

DP. If they're paying $100k/year, they're clearly not "struggling."

[Anonymous]

One PP mentions that MD passed legislation mandating dyslexia screening, and it seems like that it is required to screen all kindergarteners. Can someone provide more information on this? I have a child just joins kindergarten in MCPS, and he has IEP. There is a reading specialist from the staff directory. Do parents have to request for screening or it is mandatory screening for all kids (include K kids)? When will they do screening?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to resurrect it to ask whether this has improved at all.

My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. She also has a high IQ (136). She’s going into 2nd grade.

We’re currently paying nearly $100,000/year for private school and tutoring. It’s helping, but is a financial stranglehold.

I know MD passed legislation mandating dyslexia screening. Has that improved the situation at all, or are we better off just continuing to pay for private school and tutoring?

Um, tiniest violin ever.

Making fun of someone for struggling to pay for support for their SN child. A new low for DCUM.

DP. If they're paying $100k/year, they're clearly not "struggling."

I told you it’s a financial stranglehold. But sure — choose to be a jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to resurrect it to ask whether this has improved at all.

My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. She also has a high IQ (136). She’s going into 2nd grade.

We’re currently paying nearly $100,000/year for private school and tutoring. It’s helping, but is a financial stranglehold.

I know MD passed legislation mandating dyslexia screening. Has that improved the situation at all, or are we better off just continuing to pay for private school and tutoring?

Um, tiniest violin ever.

Making fun of someone for struggling to pay for support for their SN child. A new low for DCUM.

DP. If they're paying $100k/year, they're clearly not "struggling."

I told you it’s a financial stranglehold. But sure — choose to be a jerk.

Moreover, we’re talking about a family with a SN kid. You could choose to have some grace.

[Anonymous]

Are you suggesting the school should evaluate kids who are less than one year behind (aka ok grade level)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you suggesting the school should evaluate kids who are less than one year behind (aka ok grade level)?

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to resurrect it to ask whether this has improved at all.

My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. She also has a high IQ (136). She’s going into 2nd grade.

We’re currently paying nearly $100,000/year for private school and tutoring. It’s helping, but is a financial stranglehold.

I know MD passed legislation mandating dyslexia screening. Has that improved the situation at all, or are we better off just continuing to pay for private school and tutoring?

Um, tiniest violin ever.

Making fun of someone for struggling to pay for support for their SN child. A new low for DCUM.

DP. If they're paying $100k/year, they're clearly not "struggling."

I told you it’s a financial stranglehold. But sure — choose to be a jerk.

You have to be making $250-500K a year to be able to pay $100K a year for a school post tax and probably extra services. Many people make less thank $100K a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to resurrect it to ask whether this has improved at all.

My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. She also has a high IQ (136). She’s going into 2nd grade.

We’re currently paying nearly $100,000/year for private school and tutoring. It’s helping, but is a financial stranglehold.

I know MD passed legislation mandating dyslexia screening. Has that improved the situation at all, or are we better off just continuing to pay for private school and tutoring?

Um, tiniest violin ever.

Making fun of someone for struggling to pay for support for their SN child. A new low for DCUM.

DP. If they're paying $100k/year, they're clearly not "struggling."

I told you it’s a financial stranglehold. But sure — choose to be a jerk.

You have to be making $250-500K a year to be able to pay $100K a year for a school post tax and probably extra services. Many people make less thank $100K a year.

Once again: you’re giving someone a hard time who is struggling to pay for services for their special needs kid.

Just sit with that for a second.

[Anonymous]

So parents need to be warned that mcps will not effectively evaluate for or intervene with dyslexia. If a child reaches age 10 without effective intervention it takes 4x as long to intervene. By age 12, the window for learning to read is mostly closed as the brain is much less malleable. The wait to fail approach in mcps...where kids are not evaluated until they are 1 or more grade levels behind (and then not given systematic intervention once they are) is creating a generation of illiteracy. MCPS does not have enough school psychologists to do the evaluations and they do not have enough special educators to then do research-based interventions, for which there is no district wide adopted approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our third grader was diagnosed with specific learning disability/dyslexia at the end of second grade. The data used to diagnose him came from testing MCPS did, which was thorough and IMO an accurate reflection of his strengths and weaknesses. He has a hefty IEP that's being implemented this year, including 90 minutes of daily reading instruction (mostly small group and not all at once), along with other accommodations. We may need to supplement more if they insist on OG only, but I'm hoping for flexibility to use more accelerated evidence-based approaches.

We haven't had to fight the school at all, yet. They implemented an evidence-based Tier 2 intervention last year and then we moved to the evaluation/IEP when he failed to respond to that. So, apparently our school is a unicorn, but in our experience, at least MCPS can and does identify "dyslexia" and is helping to remediate it.

What is the name of your school?