Where to send a kid with Profound Dyslexia? Rejected everywhere.

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I would pull out of public school now and do intensive LMB March, April, & May. See where you are at and what privates have room. If you see lots of progress do June and July too.

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Try The Sycamore School. We have had great success! We also have an OG tutor outside school hours.

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Try The Legacy school in Eldersburg, MD https://legacyschoolmd.org/ or Glenwood Academy (I think it's also in Eldersburg, MD

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Anonymous wrote:Intensive OG therapy helped close the gap for our severely dyslexic child. We went with Lindamood Bell’s version of it. It was expensive and took some time but it sure did change her trajectory.

Take a look at the Linder Academy to see if they would be a fit. They build in OG to the curriculum through middle school. It has been great environment for our kid!

Why did you resurrect a year old thread for this?

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Anonymous wrote:Op again. For those who said “move” districts. We cannot. We have two other kids who are older and happy and doing well in HS.

Wait. Your older kids did well in the public option, despite fights and bullying, but you think your youngest, due to severe dyslexia, wouldn't be able to do well?

I think you need to stay where you are and pay for intensive OG tutoring several times a week; and if any issues crop up at the middle school, be extremely reactive and file bullying forms immediately.

Op here. Based on older sibling’s negative special-ed experience in the zoned middle school we cannot send our youngest there - youngest DC has significantly more special needs, profound language-based learning disabilities/complex profile. If the public school struggled and failed to help the older sibling with milder disabilities there’s *no way* they will succeed with DC academically, never mind the social implications and environment with bullying and disciplinary issues, weekly fights, kids busted with knives, etc.

We were able to transfer the older sibling to a different school in the district and older sibling is now doing well since getting away from bad experience.

So... can you do the same for youngest?

Honestly, I would explore asking for the transfer pro-actively, outlining the problems that the older child had, how the younger child has more deficits and asking for a COSA both on the basis of the disability but also on the basis of keeping siblings together.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m getting very concerned and would appreciate suggestions on school options. Almost desperate. DC who will be a rising 6th grader has a diagnosis for profound double deficit dyslexia. Just got rejected from Oakwood and Siena bc they are more than two years behind. We can’t afford Lab School, and on a school tour of KTS the director agreed their program was “too restrictive” for DC. We are stuck. We cannot send DC to our public middle school due to environment (extreme and frequent bullying and knife fight last week) and subpar special ed experience with a sibling. Homeschool isn’t an option bc DH and I both work full time.

Where do these kids go? Cognitively “normal” and socially fine, but profoundly learning disabled. Putting DC in public will destroy them, but we have no choice at this point. Help!

A lot of families use public schools because they have to accept everyone. Get as much services as you can from your public AND supplement privately. Do Lindamood bell in the summer and get an OG tutor for the rest of the year for example.

Of course if you don't like your public school, I don't know what to tell you other than you can always move. Plenty of people prioritize public schools in their choice of where to live. you chose not to do that but you could still move.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the above. We stopped 529 contributions for our child so we could afford private. We also withdraw 10k annually from their 529 to help with tuition payments. It’s not just for the educational aspect but the social. My child’s self esteem was starting to take a big hit. I was on the fence, but my husband made the decision easy for me when he said “we pay now, or we pay later and later is going to be more painful for all of us.”

I got this advice from someone and I come back to it often. You will pay one way or the other with certain kids.