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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused.  Has your child been tested for dyslexia? [/quote]

Sorry, hit send before completing my thoughts.  Has your child been tested for dyslexia or any other sort of learning differences?  The whole thing of private school's bringing up "learners" or not learners is hooey!  Before you launch into more CBT or O-G learning, I would get tested for dyslexia or other types of learning differences.   That will drive how a tutor teaches to your child.  Otherwise, you're throwing money out the window.  I know b/c we did tutoring for a year before we learned my DD has dyslexia.    That changed our WHOLE approach to reading/learning.  You may realize that this private school is not the best fit for the way your child learns.  
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No, she had a full neuropsych eval before we considered learning differences. She has “low average” visual spatial, working memory, and processing speed per that report. The evaluator’s write up said it wasn’t clear to her how much of her performance was skill based or anxiety driven. That she mostly just seemed like she wanted to be done vs trying to do the problems. Now that she’s having difficulty reading, I think we might be looking at skill based challenges. Either way we have to get her anxiety more support (CBT) as it impacts other areas of her life as well.

With dyslexia, it runs in the family and is comorbid with her other diagnoses.  my thinking is mostly to act “as if” and pull back if the approach isn’t working or if the tutor thinks a different approach is warranted.

And yeah, I hear you on the school. We will spend the summer figuring out what accommodations she might need for learning with a tutor and her neuropsych and then will have to see what school can handle.

Lots of great ideas in this thread, so thank you all. -OP[/quote]

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