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[quote=Anonymous]Op, same diagnosis and similar profile for my DD, also at age 7.

We kept her in her mainstream private school and did OG tutoring 4x per week for 2 years. She has good working memory so made tremendous progress with her tutor and is doing well academically, now 3 years later. The quality of tutors does vary, so be aware of that. I also had the tutor visit her at school and she got pulled out of her language to do it - huge benefit of not having to come home and do more tutoring.

DD is medicated for ADHD, and also sees a therapist to work on some skills like emotional regulation.

I think her private school did a great job in general with supporting her, and we didn’t want to put her in a specialized private school if she did well with the tutoring. I have a close friend whose DC did the tutoring and wasn’t able to make significant progress who then moved to a specialized private.

My biggest concern is that she is bright but managing frustration when she isn’t interested in a topic but needs to learn it for school is challenging. Luckily she picks things up quickly, but getting her to sit down and focus once the meds have worn off (for homework) can be hard.

Hoping she builds good habits so she is more motivated to do homework and do well at school because she is smart and I want her to feel like she is smart. 2nd and 3rd grade were hard because she didn’t feel very smart due to the dyslexia. That is much better now, but the negative self-talk is one of the things that pushed us to get her back in therapy again recently.

GL! [/quote]

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