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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re doing everything right.  My only advice is to get her an IEP or 504 plan with extra time for assignments and tests (both!), get it to say double time or even triple time, and then have that IEP or 504 set and maintained through her senior year in high school.  Another great thing to add to it is “testing limited to 2 hours per day.”  Then send that all to College Board and ACT her freshman or sophomore year and let her have years to handle those tests.

These are all things I paid $50k to learn from our lawyer, and just barely got done in time for our kid his junior year.   I wish I had known.

Just get her lots of accommodations, scaffolding, and supports.  She is fantastic and so are you![/quote]

Extra time on assignments is devastating for most kids, especially dyslexia.  I agree about extra time for testing, but triple time and a 2 hour limit is not needed.  [/quote]how is extra time on tests devastating for most kids?[/quote]

I said I agreed with the PP that extra time on tests is a good idea, although triple time is extreme.  A student who is taking three times as long to complete a test due to dyslexia, is likely better served with read aloud and scribing.

Extra time on assignments is almost always a disaster.  Assignments just build up. Today's assignments get moved on till tomorrow, and then you have twice the work tomorrow for a kid who doesn't have the stamina or processing speed to do one day's work in one day, and then the next day it's three times the work.  You end up with assignments to prepare for assessments being done after the assessment, and a logjam at the end of the semester, with a pile of work that is impossible to complete.  The reality is that your kid needs to select a course load that they can keep up with.  [/quote]

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