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[quote=Anonymous]Op, I was in your shoes when my DC was at the beginning of second grade.

In first grade DC was tested by a reputable practice for ADHD and dyslexia. DC definitely had ADHD, but no dyslexia diagnosis because while DCs reading, writing, and spelling were poor the range is so large in first grade (especially at the beginning), DC was normal or low normal in their abilities.

But I had them tested because DC was struggling to learn to read and it just seemed so much *harder* than other academics. But we got DC a tutor who used phonics and DC learned to read by the end of first grade. I thought maybe DC didn’t have dyslexia.

Second grade started and DC was reading fine but was stumped by names and long words. DCs writing and spelling was terrible. I watched Susan Barton’s video on writing samples from kids with dyslexia and recognized my own child’s writing had the same characteristics.

I had to call back the testing place and push them to test again. We had to pay again. We waited until DC turned 8 and there were more tests which could be used to look for dyslexia.

DC did have dyslexia. Very long story short, DC blends sounds very well, but has significant shortcomings in many other skills they tested for. Im glad they did all the subtests - the main tests showed low-normal range, but then some subtests showed single digit percentiles.

I am sometimes grumpy they made us pay again for the second round of testing. I feel like if they had done more subtests the first time they might have caught it. But in the end, the diagnosis meant we did OG tutoring and DC now flourishing in their reading (still slow, but reading above grade level and will read for pleasure). Spelling is good enough for spell-check to help, which is all we wanted.

I wish I had another answer for you, but for us it took paying again for testing, and really pushing them to be thorough. [/quote]

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