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[quote=Anonymous]FCPS is working hard to identify these kids right away. The K-2 teachers are all being trained in explicit phonics instruction and there are tests the kids get early on to see if they are making adequate progress. Signs would be: child can't learn letters, can't match sounds to letters, can't put two sounds together to make a new sound ("T" plus "R" makes "TR" -they can't get that). Also, these kids can't rhyme, can't hear differences in words, like if you say fat, fan and fat, they might think they were all the same. They can't pick out that one ended with a different sound. They mix up words, like saying "basghetti" way past other kids their age. They only say parts of multisyllablic words because they can't hear all of it and remember it. So they say, "Are we 'posed to have snack now?" because they don't know it is "SUP-posed." They can't manipulate sounds. If you say C A T really slowly, and then ask them to take the first sound off and just say the last two, they can't respond "AT."

Push for early testing and don't back down. You can have private testing at GMU at a sliding scale.

Play word games with your kid and practice rhyming and isolating sounds. Use shaving cream or other textures to practice writing letters. Check with the Parent Resource Center for FCPS for other strategies. Get a private tutor who specializes in dyslexia. There is not going to be enough school time for the kind of remediation this needs - every kid with dyslexia that I have ever had only made progress when there was a tutor, also. [/quote]

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