When Child Is Too Dyslexic for Dyslexia School?!? Help!

[Anonymous]

Also - reach out to a lawyer. Some will consider funding arrangements and will be able to get you help.

[Anonymous]

Is there any possibility your child also has inattentive ADHD? You can look up the Vanderbilt checklist online, and our dx was part of a full neuropsych but dx was based on parent and teacher responses on the Vanderbilt and parent interview. Adhd meds might help with retention/ recall, but it's hard to say.

It sounds like a really tough situation.

[Anonymous]

Kids like this need one on one instruction to learn. Send him to public and supplement. Like mad. 5 days a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any possibility your child also has inattentive ADHD? You can look up the Vanderbilt checklist online, and our dx was part of a full neuropsych but dx was based on parent and teacher responses on the Vanderbilt and parent interview. Adhd meds might help with retention/ recall, but it's hard to say.

It sounds like a really tough situation.

Thank you. The last time DC was tested was during Covid so the testing wasn’t completely accurate bc it was sort of piecemeal. No ADHD flags were raised then but that doesn’t mean it’s not a possibility. We just requested that DC be retested again by the district now that the testing environment will be “normal.”

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Anonymous wrote:Kids like this need one on one instruction to learn. Send him to public and supplement. Like mad. 5 days a week.

Op here That’s what I’m wondering if is a better option. Back to public in a self contained classroom with one on one tutoring every day. DC functions completely differently one on one with their tutor as opposed to even in a small classroom with under 10 students. We are just concerned that in public DC will be back in a self-contained special Ed classroom with kids who have severe intellectual disabilities and behavioral issues, which also isn’t appropriate for DC. That’s what happened in public in earlier grades.

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Anonymous wrote:ASDEC’s Sounds In Syllables is a 2-3 year program, and it’s sorta the last resort. Very structured. It’s a major commitment but it does work.

We ultimately did this and wish we started here. Very comprehensive. Ideally, do 1 hr x 4 days/week.

OP here and going to look into this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids like this need one on one instruction to learn. Send him to public and supplement. Like mad. 5 days a week.

Op here That’s what I’m wondering if is a better option. Back to public in a self contained classroom with one on one tutoring every day. DC functions completely differently one on one with their tutor as opposed to even in a small classroom with under 10 students. We are just concerned that in public DC will be back in a self-contained special Ed classroom with kids who have severe intellectual disabilities and behavioral issues, which also isn’t appropriate for DC. That’s what happened in public in earlier grades.

Where are you? We are in moco. We’ve been in private because up until now my son had behavioral issues that made it necessary. We may switch to private for seventh grade - self contained wouldn’t be horrible here they have an “autism program” — my son isn’t autistic - but it’s kind of like a track for kids who aren’t on grade level but aren’t ID. I think it will work for us. My son has severe LD. ASDEC has been incredible for him.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Sorry.

They just can’t retain language and are still having a lot of trouble with letter reversals in very simple words like “bid”/“did” and “was/saw” “on/no”. They can *NOT* read those words consistently *EVEN* when they are in the same sentence.

Like “the dog was glad he saw a log.”

The child is now 10 and would have trouble reading that sentence. After YEARS of IEP support in public, special private school for two years, tutoring, and interventions.

Well right - dyslexia doesn't go away.

[Anonymous]

^^ Be nice. She's tried smething, it didn't wrk and nw she's frustrated. (I"m giving up 0s fr lent)

[Anonymous]

What type of instruction is child getting in private dyslexic school? As in 1 to 1, small group, how many days a week, is the teacher appropriately trained?

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Anonymous wrote:^^ Be nice. She's tried smething, it didn't wrk and nw she's frustrated. (I"m giving up 0s fr lent)

Didn't mean to be rude, tho I could have softened it possibly. It seems to me that some parents try to cure their kid, so that was why i commented that. Not sure if that's OP's expectation or not. I know several people who are highly dyslexic and highly successful - to this day they prefer to listen to everything: news, books, training for work, you name it. They still don't read well, but they are rock stars in their fields

[Anonymous]

We moved our average IQ, profoundly dyslexic kid to Lab at that age and it's been exactly what he needed (he's now in the high school). He won't ever be a fluent, grade level reader, but he's learned how to read well enough to get by, and maybe more importantly, he's learned how to use accommodations to keep up with a regular high school courseload. My impression is that most of the kids are not as profoundly dyslexic as he is and he probably struggles more academically than many of them, but it's a supportive environment where he feels comfortable and capable as a learner, which is pretty extraordinary given his learning challenges. The tuition is brutal but worth every penny for us.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, in that situation, one of us would quit their job and tutor ourselves at home. None of these programs are "hard". They need some specialized knowledge and practice, but nothing a person of your intelligence can't figure out. Maybe your child has a rare set of learning disabilities for which the usual approaches don't really work. Maybe he also has autism and/or ADHD, and he would do better in a quieter environment, with ADHD meds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We moved our average IQ, profoundly dyslexic kid to Lab at that age and it's been exactly what he needed (he's now in the high school). He won't ever be a fluent, grade level reader, but he's learned how to read well enough to get by, and maybe more importantly, he's learned how to use accommodations to keep up with a regular high school courseload. My impression is that most of the kids are not as profoundly dyslexic as he is and he probably struggles more academically than many of them, but it's a supportive environment where he feels comfortable and capable as a learner, which is pretty extraordinary given his learning challenges. The tuition is brutal but worth every penny for us.

PP here, meant to add: We did intensive OG tutoring (5 days a week) through ASDEC, LMB summer program, and all the other things in elementary school, and none of it made much of a difference -- I think sometimes dyslexia is just really hard to remediate and it's going to be a long road no matter what. For us, the key was finding an environment where DS would be able to make at least slow progress on his reading while also thriving despite being so far behind.

[Anonymous]

I think you're looking for 2 things: improvement in your child's reading and grade level instruction in other subjects in a dyslexia friendly format (i.e. audio, math without lengthy written word problems). Well, I guess the other piece is something that works financially and logistically for your family.