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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome to the club, OP! Your daughter is going to do fine, and it’s going to take some hard work on both of your parts.

Have you read any books about dyslexia yet? The classic is Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shawitz and it is still accurate and supportive and a best first step.

You almost certainly are going to need outside tutoring. The most effective is known as academic language therapy, and you can either search for one (search Google for academic language therapist or CALT or go to ALTAread.org) or you can contact ASDEC, our local resource for academic language therapy.

Your school may also have a list of dyslexia providers. You’ll want to check credentials, though, and knowing what to look for can be confusing.

What did the neuropsych report specifically recommend/refer you to?[/quote]

Thank you. Extremely helpful.

She recommended text to speech, reading intervention programs, such as ortho gillingham, as well as learning to type asap[/quote]

Since she is so young I’d hold off on the text to speech and learning to type. There will be time for that, but if you support her really well now she may not need those things as accommodations as much later (just too soon to say - she well may. It’s just too early to know).

The school will not provide reading intervention at the level that is needed to get her reading, writing, and spelling up to her potential. They should, in an ideal world. But that isn’t the one we live in, so you do what you’ve got to do.

The good news is she is so young! You can help her succeed before she fails, and that is a gift most dyslexic kids don’t get.[/quote]

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