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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you think your daughter has dyslexia and your husband doesn't want her tested, assume she does have dyslexia and get her orton-gillingham based tutoring if she is not reading at grade level at school. What grade is she in?

There are people on this forum who really push for expensive testing. I thought my son was bright and dyslexic based on what I read about warning signs and he started to struggle to learn to read in first grade. He was on a waiting list to get tested for 4 1/2 months then it took another month or so to get the results. It turns out he is bright and dyslexic. I really wish I had saved the $3,000 and spent it all on tutoring starting when he was in first grade and not waiting to start tutoring when all the testing was finished, which by that time he was in second grade and further behind.

My sister learned from my mistake and started getting her son tutoring in kindergarten because he had the same symptoms of dyslexia. It is so much easier to remediate the younger the child is. [/quote]

We push for testing because it’s the right thing to do.  If you suspected your child had vision problems you would get their vision tested before playing a guessing game with glasses.  Language based learning disabilities can be more than just dyslexia.

Op, go through children’s or kki for a neuropschological evaluation and screen for adhd too.  More than likely it will be a long wait but generally insurance will pay for half or all the evaluation.[/quote]

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