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[quote=Anonymous]Sounds like my kid, who has dyslexia. He is a rising second grader, diagnosed mid year in 1st. Dyslexia runs in families (I have it too, undiagnosed as a kid) so if you see struggles in your husband's family, and kiddo is struggling, it makes sense to look into it. If you have the resources I'd just get him tested - you want psychoeducational testing. My kid is really smart, and really social tuned in, and so for him to struggle at reading in front of his friends was devastating for him. Truly ego-bashing. He was hiding his work at school, refusing to try to read at home, etc.

The thing with letting the school provide the extra help and just getting standard reading tutoring is that if your child does have dyslexia, the treatment isn't MORE time learning, necessarily, but a certain kind of teaching. A dyslexic kid needs a special sequential methodology and curricula. The approach with the most evidence behind it is called Orton-Gillingham, and there are a couple of curricula based on the approach to chose from. So if the school or tutor is doing a structured O-T approach for intervention, and it works, then fine, you may not need a diagnosis. But if they aren't, your kid may not get what he needs if he does have dyslexia.

Good luck! [/quote]

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