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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A classroom teacher can not diagnose your child with a learning disability. He or she can recommend that you look into getting your child tested based on XYZ. The classroom teacher would be putting themselves in a difficult position to tell a parent that their child has a LD and it is often frowned upon in schools. If you child has gone through the proper channels and been fully tested and diagnosed then I don't understand why they would have a problem saying the word. [/quote]

Read the article. They say it is because school districts believe that parents will want a specific kind of remediation (e.g. a Orrin Gillingham-based method)i if the diagnosis is dyslexia. And they won't or can't provide it.[/quote]

My DC charter did.  I went in and asked, "so which of these three evidenced based models for dyslexia will you be providing my child?"  I'm a former school social worker, and they knew it.  They sent someone to OG training, and when that person left they sent someone else.  My son gets OG pullout 4 days a week.[/quote]

I got the same thing from my kid's DC charter school a few year's back. But from speaking with others I don't think our experience is typical. Charter schools can be (they aren't always) much more flexible. I had no specialized training but had done research ahead and knew what was likely to work for my kid.[/quote]

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