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Is there any hope of getting help through the school?  [b]We're in public schools (APS)[/b].[/quote]

You may be able to but it will cost a fortune and involve a LOT of advocating/fighting for what your kid needs.  You will have to do all remediation outside of school on your dime.   Assuming APS even agrees to the diagnosis and gives you an IEP you will not get anywhere close to the hours the kid needs to catch up with the school based specialist (if they're even OG certified).  APS is absolutely abysmal with dyslexia.  Some schools are better than others but none of them are great.   We were at McKinley and it was abysmal.

As background, our kid was diagnosed in 5th grade.  During distance learning we saw him trying to learn and realized how far behind he was.  He was always barely making it by.  Failed the last SOL he took and even that didn't register as an issue with the school.  We came to learn he never learned basic phonics-things you should learn by 2nd grade and no one ever noticed.

We pulled him out for private school.  We also knew he would never be successful in an APS middle school.  I have two older kids so I know the amount of teacher involvement/help there is and what is expected of them and knew there was no way he could be successful.

You absolutely need a dyslexia centered program.  We had an OG tutor and it's done wonders.  It is by no means cheap but we really had no other options.  I can't really help with tutor recommendations as we no longer live in the area.  Check out the Lab School's website.  They have a list of tutors and they may have other resources.  We did not go to The Lab School-I just used the tutor list.  [/quote]

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