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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thank you all for your honesty. We've recently started looking into tutors, specifically OG trained ones, so this reinforces that we need to get that finalized ASAP. No one has said anything to us about dyslexia being a possibility but an OG trained tutor is going to be good for any child, right?[/quote]

I'm a teacher but there are many reasons a student can be behind. He doesn't necessarily have dyslexia. What phonemic awareness and phonics program does his school use? [/quote]

OP here, I honestly have no idea. I know he's behind because he didn't have any phonics instruction in Kindergarten, we knew he fell behind then because his teacher emphasized guessing based on the first letter and the picture. We are STILL working on undoing all of that. He had a great teacher last year who focused on phonemic awareness, so was finally able to sound out words starting then. I work full-time so I don't listen in on lessons now, but I don't think they work on phonics anymore. We read a LOT at home and he's doing a pretty good job with elephant and biggie type books. I don't think he has dyslexia, but I'm not an expert, so how would I even know?[/quote]

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