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[quote=Anonymous]Don’t wait for the school to say “something is wrong,” because they won’t. They will keep “waiting it for click” and MAYBE giving your child some time with their reading specialist, which will be USELESS for dyslexia.

Thanks to Covid and virtual school, I was lucky enough to catch the problem early on with my child at the end of her K year (she was just shy of 6). It was so bad that I made the case to the school to let her repeat K and worked one on one diligently with her (daily) using the ALL ABOUT READING curriculum/program. She is NOW at slight above grade level but at AGE level.

Meanwhile, I had a neuropsychological eval done at Children’s along with a learning disabilities eval. Insurance covered the neuropsychological eval but I had to pay for the learning part since it was not medical. Because it was done at the same time I got a big discount.

BTW, the county refused to have her tested (FCPS) - I had to meet with a panel and they denied the test because she was very young and they wanted to see if her starting taking meds for ADHD (since she had recently been diagnosed- at the time by ped only as i was on the waitlist for the complete neuro at Children’s) would solve the problem, plus the fact that our principal had allowed her to repeat K. Just their typical wait and see…

One thing to consider is that during her evaluation the doctor told me she had been lucky to have an intervention done early because, as she put it, if a child gets to 3rd grade not reading fluently (for grade level that is), it will be very hard to acquire complete fluency. Not impossible of course, but it just becomes very hard and requires more work and intervention.

Because of that, if you have the $$ means, I would take your child during this summer to an evaluation at MindWell (faster). And probably not even that… I mean, what would be the point of having a diagnosis? It is not like the county will help gim if he has the diagnosis. You will still need to either work with your child one on one or find an EXCELLENT tutor who uses OG. They are like unicorns I have found.

Another approach, and probably the one I would take to my child if he were a rising 3rd grader, would be to fork the money for Lindamood Bell for a boot camp - everyday, 4 to 6 hours for 3 to 4 weeks. Something along those lines - they have a proprietary e evaluation and would tell you how many hour your child would need to get to grade level. I would expect you would have to spend at least 8 to 10k with this.

IMO, it would be a wash out of what you end up.paying a good and effective OG tutor 3 hours per week for God knows how long. The advantage of LB to me is that it is fast, and it doesn't keep dragging on.

Good luck op. Whatever approach you choose, DON'T TRUST the school system to effectively help your child in this.[/quote]

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