How do people afford dyslexia?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

What is your point?

My assumption is that this is true because only the parents who can afford evaluations know that their children have dyslexia.

Also as a pp has tried to explain, public schools don't diagnose students.

PP is a lawyer. Poor and middle class people know they can't afford lawyers. Of course the people calling are upper middle class, they're they only ones who can afford to litigate. A middle class family may stretch for an advocate, but that's it

PP lawyer. We work on fee shifting, so that's not an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

What is your point?

My assumption is that this is true because only the parents who can afford evaluations know that their children have dyslexia.

Also as a pp has tried to explain, public schools don't diagnose students.

PP is a lawyer. Poor and middle class people know they can't afford lawyers. Of course the people calling are upper middle class, they're they only ones who can afford to litigate. A middle class family may stretch for an advocate, but that's it

PP lawyer. We work on fee shifting, so that's not an issue.

Sure. How many cases have you litigated with middle class clients? You can fee shift all you want, once you exhaust the appeals process, court is not for the middle class. The school systems know it and parents know it

[Anonymous]

DD was diagnosed late in ES. She was at a Catholic K8 school that taught reading the old fashion way - no Lucy C. They also had some additional reading supports and provided feedback on how we could work with DC. We worked with her everyday. We would have hired an OG tutor but they were hard to come by- no one in our area was available and then Covid hit.
Thankfully, her dyslexia was more mild, and like many of these DC she had a high IQ.

The other major factor that played into her success was her friend group. They are all veracious readers. Now in HS, they all still read ~ 1 book a month. It may sounds silly, but I do believe the love of reading in her peer group was very influential.

Another thing we did early on was join a program at a local pet shelter. She read out loud to cats. She now reads aloud at children’s Mass to grow her confidence in public reading.

[Anonymous]

We did intensive speech. We spent everything we had on it. No vacations, no extras, etc. you find a way.

[Anonymous]

Dyslexic here - my parents were wealthy and they spent a LOT of money when I was a kid. It was frustrating for them. If I could offer the one thing that really made a difference to me (if you need to prioritize) is someone to let me know that my brain just worked differently. Regular tutors and tutoring DID NOT WORK.

[Anonymous]

Also (poster above)- dyslexia is a broad diagnosis. Did they give your more information (speech, reading, etc)? Knowing which type it is can be helpful

[Anonymous]

My kid is also SN but not dyslexic taught himself to read so I don’t have direct experience but I have a coworker who has a dyslexic kid and his wife worked with his kid for hours after school every day and they sent him to a special school for a year. If I’m remembering correctly the school system paid. But even with that it still set back their retirement