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[quote=Anonymous]You describe my child, who is diagnosed with ADHD and Learning Disability (Dysgraphia).

Write a letter to the school saying that you suspect an LD and want an IEP and are asking the school for a full battery of IQ and achievement testing including testing in reading achievement, spelling achievement, knowledge of sound/symbol relationships (i.e. encoding and decoding in spelling and reading) and OT evaluation for handwriting, and a full language assessment.  If the school refuses to provide, move for an Independent Educational Assessment.

FWIW, our child has dysgraphia and does much better at "spelling" tests when his spelling words are chunked and audio-recorded for him.  He can listen to them several times a day in about 5 minutes and he will do very well on a test.  Repeated writing, sorting exercises, writing sentences, etc. do absolutely nothing for his learning because the high cognitive load created by his dysgraphia prevents him from learning anything thru writing.

This kind of "spelling" help was meaningless for his ability to become an on grade level speller in the context of written work.  For that, he needed extensive, explicit phonic (i.e. sound/symbol) instruction in both decoding and encoding.  Once he got that his spelling improved dramatically.

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