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[quote=Anonymous]I really, really wish we'd done the testing. My 17 year old HS junior was in early intervention for articulation errors, so had speech therapy, but as she was always at the very top of her reading group we never knew to test for dyslexia. I just always thought she was a lousy speller in a school system that doesn't teach spelling anymore. She went to GT programs for language/humanities for crying out loud.

We just got a full neuropsych done for different reasons last summer and I can't remember all the tests but the deltas between her brain power for lack of a better technical term and her spelling, word attack, those kinds of tests was ridiculous. We also figured out that she has to read sentences multiple times but never said anything as she thought it was like that for everyone. The psychologist said that if we'd done the testing in early elementary DD probably would have gotten a dyslexia diagnosis. I wish we could have a do-over and do dyslexia therapy in elementary.[/quote]

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