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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has relatively mild dyslexia, and received pretty much no support in APS except for a full year of reading in 6th grade. We did tutoring privately, which helped a lot.

There is an Arlington reading group that would probably be a better place to ask.

https://arlingtonreading.groups.io/g/main 
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I'll be totally honest.  You will receive little support from APS with language disabilities.  To be honest, middle school is the worst for support.  They're almost all overcrowded and they struggle to teach to the gen ed population let alone help kids with LD.  It's very likely your kids will get lost in the shuffle.  Even kids who have no disabilities get lost in middle school.

Our youngest has dyslexia, dyscalculia, and inattentive ADHD.  We had 2 older kids, neither with learning disabilities, go though APS middle school at Swanson.  Just seeing how the school functioned we knew there was no way the youngest would get the support they needed.  We pulled them for a private school.  I know several other families with dyslexic kids who had similar experiences.  APS is not great with learning disabilities and dyslexia seems to be one they really don't know how, or more accurately don't won't to have to deal with.  [/quote]

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