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[quote=Anonymous]Our DD is in the process of being evaluated and I strongly suspect she has mild dyslexia.  We'll get the full report in a few weeks.  She's in the AAP program in FFX county and qualified with high scores.  We had WISC done, and it shows no discrepancy in working memory/processing speed as compared to verbal and nonverbal abilities.  Still, not surprisingly given the (apparent) dyslexia, she is struggling in AAP.  She is getting by well enough that the teacher didn't notice an issue, but we had her privately evaluated because we had seen weird gaps in DD's spelling, reading, ability to process directions and speed in completing assignments.  DD also has trouble remembering math facts (she understands the concepts, no problem, but her memory for facts and lists, etc. is not good).

We're considering moving her back to Gen. Ed., but I wanted to ask here if anyone else has a DC with this presentation.  If so, did you keep your child in AAP and pursue accommodations, or did you move to Gen. Ed. and go from there?  I think our DD would be okay with moving back to Gen. Ed. - we can supplement with creative projects at home and this would also give us more free time to remediate the dyslexia.  (DD is performing at/above grade level, so school won't provide any remediation.)  But I also wonder, if we pursued the right accommodations, if it's possible for a child who is mildly dyslexic to do reasonably well in AAP.  DD does benefit from the depth of the language arts, science and social studies curriculum.  It's just that some of the easy stuff can be hard for her, while the hard stuff (theoretical, abstract concepts) generally is easy.  Has anyone else sorted through these types of issues?  TIA

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