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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since early intervention (with a private tutor if the school won't do anything) is so important for dyslexia I'd do the testing sooner rather than later.[/quote]

I agree that early intervention is so important so I wouldn't even wait for testing. Get a trained OG tutor to start working with him now. Don't wait. Have the tutor work with him 2 to 3 days a week or you can buy the Wilson reading program for under $300 and do it every day with you child. I know people here tend to be pro testing first but I wish I had just started remediating. I wasted a year trying to figure out where to get testing, waiting for a test appt, waiting for results, etc. I knew my child couldn't read. Being not able to read well in class made him more inattentive at school and it was hard for him to focus doing homework because he was struggling. Most kids who can't read 85% of them have difficulties with phonemic awareness/phonological processing, phonological memory, and/or rapid naming. The intervention for all of those issues is to do a Orton Gillingham program. So I spent $3,000 to be told to do a program that costs $300. And sadly I waited a year to start. I pay my third grader $3 everyday (there are 3 sections of daily work in Wilson so a dollars a section) because that is what it took for him to agree to do it. I pay him on Saturdays and we go to Target to buy a toy. It is cheaper than a tutor but if I had money I would use a tutor 2 to 3 days a week and work with him myself the other days. If you start working with him now and through the summer, he will be in good shape to start 2nd grade.[/quote]

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