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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am also wondering why you do not think your child is dyslexic? What you describe sounds absolutely classic.

If I were your, I would look for someone who specializes in dyslexia to do a neuropsych or at least psycho-educational testing. In the meantime, you can also call ASDEC. They have highly trained academic therapists, who are expensive, but will teach your child the right way.

Your question... why don't public schools say dyslexia... the DSM doesn't say dyslexia either. They say "Specific Learning Disorder" and then you can parse it. I think it is much more problematic that the standard to remediate dyslexia is very low.

I am FCPS and even with a robust IEP, the expectation is that your instruction will be multi-sensory. The instruction my good friend's son gets is an absolute waste of time. He has a private tutor - times a week who does all the remediation. The school basically has agreed not to get in the way. In other ways, the school is very strong ... in STEM like you say. But they have no clue how to properly remediate language-based learning differences.

I think your choices are a school that specializes in kids with language based LDs, like Oawood, Siena, Lab, or to supplement either school with an academic therapist/tutor who specializes in dyslexia. Re: mainstream private or public, private *might* be more flexible about letting your tutor come into the school and substitute the language arts instruction -- publics won't allow that -- but I think you are less likely to get any targeted help.[/quote]

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