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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with ASDEC. Curious why PP recommended a school in Baltimore over the Lab School?

OP, I think when your child has gotten this far (through effort, natural intelligence, grit and a lot of other positive qualities), it would probably be painfully frustrating for her to start over with a new reading program like OG. What I think you can do though is look up all the best practices for educating kids with learning differences, which I am sure will involve making learning as multi-sensory as possible so that she retains information better.

I don't know to what extent you can ask for this at school. Sure, any dyslexia-geared reading program is going to be multi-sensory but can they teach the AP History material in a multi-sensory way? That's where you would probably have to go to elsewhere...  many privates would likely introduce information in a more varied and attention-grabbing way than most publics and Lab would probably teach in the most helpful way for a dyslexic though I am not sure whether they offer AP level classes.

What I am trying to say is that these Learning Difference affect HOW a kid learns. Special education in elementary school (in an ideal situation) will use best practice methods to teach a kid to read. But, in my exprience, it is hard (impossible?) to get the same level of content in special education.

I also think it can be extremely helpful for a kid to get an executive function tutor. Building these skills will help with EVERYTHING.

I have two kids with language-based learning differences. One was so severe, he got an IEP in first. Honestly, useless and we pulled him out after 2nd. He homeschooled and then went to a mainstream private and is now doing very well at a top 25 college. Second wasn't diagnosed until much later and, like you, we were told it was "too late" for intervention. He never had anything but accommodations. He is doing fine but it has been a bumpy road. I wish we hadn't kept him at FCPS.[/quote]

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