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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What reading interventions are available for middle schoolers in MCPS?

If reading isn't remediated before Middle School, do you have to go private?
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Here’s the MCPS approach -

Before 3rd grade, if child is not meeting benchmarks then wait and see.  By 3rd grade, everything starts to click and children who have been struggling all of a sudden can read. At least that’s what we were told at our elementary school.

After 3rd grade, still not reading to the point of comprehending short passages. School team said not quite sure what was going on but they didn’t suspect a disability so no evaluation was needed.  Child still struggling with reading and starting to hate going to school.  Reading specialist could not work with her because she didn’t have an IEP. So MCPS basically was doing nothing to teach her how to read.

What did it take to teach my child how to read? A comprehensive private evaluation and a private special education teacher who taught Lindamood Bell method with her for nine months.

The lack of reading specialists in middle school is not the problem. It’s the lack of evaluating children with disabilities that have an educational impact that’s the problem and school staff that passes children from grade to grade without basic skills. Middle schools needs more special education teachers who have skills to address dyslexia (reading) and dysgraphia (math).[/quote]

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