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[quote=Anonymous]Would you go ahead and request a special education evaluation for a 7-year-old with the following:

- Early speech delay, ear infections, ADHD diagnosis, family history of ADHD/ASD, family history of dysgraphia & Specific Learning Disabilities
-Early intervention speech/OT, private SLP until age 6, targeted reading plan in 1st grade (due to VALLSS high-risk results).
-child found ADHD medication that works January 2025 and teacher has reported good effort (he previously would not even try challenging tasks) 
-Fall VALLSS (1st grade, 2024) score was a 592 and Fall VALLSS (2nd grade,2025) was a 624.  They've made almost no progress over the year with decoding.  Real word decoding fall last year was 3/15 and this year 2/15. pseudoword decoding last year 1/15 and this year 0/15.  Phoneme segmenting last year 5/10 and this year 3/10.  They made a little progress with encoding from 11/80 last year to 39/88 this year but are still super behind. Fluency is also poor.

The school has simply sent home another reading plan intervention, and he will participate in a reading intervention with 12 other students for 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week.  They have provided individual plans, but it's not clear how it will be individualized with so many other students in one group.

I feel like we have plenty of data to support that he is struggling and we need to do a full evaluation to see if his ADHD is impacting him or something else, like a specific learning disability.  I honestly am frustrated that his school did not push for any further supports or interventions at this point.  I think this seems more than reasonable, but am I off-base here?? [/quote]

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