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[quote=Anonymous]My 3rd grader was just diagnosed with dyslexia.  I'd love to hear stories about how things went for your kid.  My daughter is bright and had some very disparate results on her neuropsyche--99th percentile in non-reading focused activities like reasoning and 6th percentile in things like rapid picture naming and phonemic awareness.

At school, she's having a ton of problems with finishing assignments in the time allotted, and giving her extra time just means that she misses other stuff.  For example, the kids were working on essays and she finished one paragraph in the time the rest of the class finished 5 paragraphs.  The teacher gave her extra time, which meant that the rest of the class moved onto math while she sat to the side and worked on her essay (half listening to the math lesson, which meant that she neither got the math lesson nor finished the essay).  I'm really not sure how she's going to get through school successfully like this!  I'd love some stories from other families.  How did your kids do in school if they are bright....but reading takes a looooooong time.

We are working on finding an excellent reading specialist for remediation (all suggestions welcome). In the meantime, I'd love to hear how other kids with a similar profile (bright, but a very slow reader) did in school.  Was your kid able to excel in things like math or did the reading issues mean that all subjects were a slog?  What helped your kid?  How is s/he doing now?[/quote]

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