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[quote=Anonymous]I echo that the tutor is so, so important. My son's tutor from 1-4th grade was his biggest cheerleader, and helped him see he is bright, he just is dyslexic. His reading specialist at school - a pricey private, no less - made him feel dumb and incompetent. We couldn't change the school's way of teaching reading (they HAVE since changed it, thank goodness) but we could find a hundred ways to lift up my kid - the cheerleader tutor, making his outside passions a priority, and grasping every opportunity to shine a light on academic areas he shines at - which are few and far between, so we have to work at it.

My kid found that the school teaching didn't contradict or go against what he was learning in tutoring, it just didn't help. What actively hurt was the shame my kid felt at not being able to keep up. We worked on helping him understand why, and appreciate dyslexic strengths, and also made our goal to keep him at grade level for everything but spelling, fluency, and math facts. Its been a struggle because the school was happy to let him fall behind and call it accommodation.[/quote]

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