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[quote=Anonymous]OP, she may be an average kid in a sea of above average ones. I have a kid like that: started out with definable deficits but now at age 10 is just mostly "low average" across the board. The rest of our family, and his brother, and our community, are "above average", so acknowledging his difference to myself has been important in decision making.

I put him in a small private school that does have very high achieving children, but it also supports kids with LD/ADHD (which my son does not have but he has access to some one-on-one teaching there). This was a better fit than our local public school where the kids are mostly incredibly smart, the special needs services are good, but if you are low average you just get lost. I pay out of pocket for handwriting and social skills help, he does a private "summer school program", and he does individual lessons (swimming, tennis) rather than group sports because he is also not very coordinated. I'm not sure if he will go to college so I have my eye out for vocational programs that one day might be a good fit, and in our family we are thoughtful how we speak about "achievement" (effort matters more than results; being a kind person matters more than anything). He is very sweet and the light of my life. I am planning on another full eval soon but don't expect it to reveal anything earth shattering. He is just a 90 IQ kid in a 130 IQ community.

I am not sure what to tell you about your husband. My DH has completely checked out on decision making because "it makes him feel too sad." Must be nice to relieve oneself of that responsibility, but whatever. If he didn't let me do what I thought I needed to do for DS, I would divorce him. But if her teachers are not concerned I wouldn't stress too much about doing an eval now. [/quote]

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