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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly this sounds so much like my gifted but dyslexic and dysgraphic kid. I’m glad you are already doing O-G interventions, that’s key, and that you have a full eval scheduled. I second the suggestion for a switch to Montessori if you can, it was a great fit (along with an O-G specialist 3x/wk) for my child from pre-k through 4th. Even if you don’t end up with a dyslexia and/or dysgraphia diagnosis, the O-G interventions are still great for the issues you describe. [/quote]

OP here. I’ll be honest, that’s our concern.

I went into her classroom after school about a week ago and asked her to show me some of her work. She showed me some very basic writing she did. I kid you not — there were 5-6 letter/number reversals in the 8-10 words she had written.

She forms letters in ways I’ve never seen before. She’ll tell us 63 is 36.

And yet, she can do puzzles that are well above her age range. She’s terrific at mental math. Her vocabulary is wonderful. [/quote]
You are seriously describing my kid. DC’s verbal skills have always been off the charts. DC excels in math and spacial reasoning, and solved mental manipulation problems (visualizing complex shapes that requires flipping/reflecting the object mentally and choosing the correct option on paper) that the doc doing her eval had only had one other child successfully complete. That child was 16, my kid was 9.

Giftedness and learning differences can mask each other—the LD holding the child back from their full potential but their intelligence allowing them to figure out work-arounds for quite a while. With dyslexia, that tipping point is often around grade 3, where a switch starts happening from “learning to read” to “reading to learn”, and they can’t keep up anymore. It’s great that you’re getting an eval now.

Obviously I have no idea if your child is gifted or dyslexic or anything else, but any or all of that is a possibility. If your child is 2e (gifted plus LD), public schools can be a struggle—they have systems in place for kids who are gifted or kids who have a learning difference and need supports, but handling both together is a challenge. That’s exactly why we’re in private instead of public.

You’re already doing the right things. It takes a while, and a supportive school helps a ton. My kid is in HS now, though, and doing great with fairly standard accommodations. After Montessori, DC went on to a k-8 (a regular private with a good learning center, not a dyslexia-focused school) and now is in a strong private HS. It will get better. [/quote]

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