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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) Dibels take about a minute.   It’s meant as a mass screening tool; teacher can get through lots of kids and quickly weed out who needs help.  It should never be used to diagnose a reading disorder AND it will miss kids.

2)  what you need to do is delve into the various components of Dibels if your child is struggling and figure out which section is causing the problem.  That may give you a clue — but not necessarily the answer — as to what is going on.  Particularly if they are consistently missing a section.  For example, dyslexic children often struggle with the nonsense word part which isn’t tested in fourth grade.  Our excellent student child kept missing that part in 2nd and 3rd grades and I WISHED someone told me to demand the breakdown.   It would’ve stoked me to pursue diagnosis much earlier.  Do not be afraid to demand everything about these results.  All they give you is the composite score but you need to know the composite of what.  [/quote]

YES!  I posted above. This is exactly what happened to us. I asked APS to go back and pull the breakdown by section for prior years, after our kid was diagnosed privately with dyslexia. It was upsetting to me that the clues were there the whole time, but APS only ever provided the composite score. [/quote]

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