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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP what are your childs issues?   Would help to answer just went through myself this with my kiddo with autism and adhd.[/quote]

Dyslexia, dysgraphia and ADHD

A reading elective was offered but not much in the way of specifics were given. I don't know how well this would serve to help and if it's worth losing an elective. 
  
Thank you for all the responses thus far and please continue to share your experiences. [/quote]

My DC has all three of those diagnoses also.  All are in the severe range.   With reading he has trouble with decoding, RAN and phoneme awareness. His assets were in comprehension, background knowledge and vocabulary (but not spelling)  In FCPS in 7th grade he took a special ed reading class called Language! And in 8th grade he took RESULTS.  In elementary school and privately he did Wilson and made it to the end of the second level by the end of 6th grade.

Both of these programs were helpful and allowed him to make more progress with reading.  He also used Learning Ally and BookShare as well as Virginia AIM to get his textbooks electronically through the school (although he has an individual membership in Learning Ally and Bookshare).  He received teacher/class notes so that he could pay attention in class.  He has a reader and scribe for all assessments.  He also had a laptop with word prediction software- currently he uses that component in Word and prefers that.  He received Kurzweil on his laptop.  Kurzweil is very helpful for scanning in worksheets to be able to type in answers.  It was essential for biology cell pictures that need to be labeled.  It also has text to speech capabilities for handouts and PDFs.  He also received more time on assessments- since he also had a scribe/reader -he would go to the special ed office and someone would read/scribe for him.  He also got reader/scribe and 50% extra time for all College Board tests including SATs and APs.

He is currently a senior in HS and is off to college in the fall.  [/quote]

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