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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.. How do I find who does these evaluations? Should I start with the pediatrician?[/quote] Your pediatrician likely won't know much. [b]The cheapest way to get an evaluation is to ask the school.[/b] You'll have to show evidence of him struggling -- easy if his difficulty with reading is impacting his grades, harder (but not impossible) if his grades are good. The more thorough but also more expensive way is through someplace like Stixrud, which will do a many-hour deep dive into his learning needs and strengths.[/quote] I am a tutor. It is true that you are entitled to a full evaluation at school and if you disagree with that you can request an Independent Educational Evaluation which the school is (generally) obliged to pay for. OP, your description of your DC does sound like it could be dyslexia. Believe it or not, every year or 2 I run across bright kids who somehow have managed to muddle through and get to HS without bad grades. Somehow they have learned to compensate but in HS the work demand and time pressure is such that their compensation mechanisms are overwhelmed. As a tutor what I see. is - smart kid, maybe seems inattentive, seems exhausted by more than a few paragraphs of text, has difficulty sounding out multi-syllabic words, may skip words or word endings while reading aloud and not notice what they said doesn't make sense, may substitute orthographically different but substantively similar words, can read aloud but cannot state the meaning of what they just said because they are using most of their brain for decoding, not fluent oral readers & sound stilted, slow reader, dislikes reading, sometimes vocabulary isn't commensurate with intelligence, etc. They also tend to have difficulty with learning a foreign language. These kids generally never picked up the idea of sounding out an entire word. The began a kind of "whole word" approach very young - identifying a few letter/sounds in the word and then guessing a contextually appropriate word. It's a tremendously slow and effortful way to read but can last thru middle school, particularly if the kid is smart and not taking particularly challenging class load or heavy reading load. Another kind of "reading problem" I see frequently is reading comprehension difficulty with long texts in people with ADHD or a language processing disability. ADHD kids have trouble attending to long texts about non-preferred interests and keeping track of the narrative thread in their head. They also sometimes miss embedded social cues in text. Kids with expressive language or word-finding difficulty often have difficulty summarizing text in their head so they also lose the overall substantive meaning and structure. As a tutor, I can tell when a student is struggling but I can't tell if it's ADHD or dyslexia. Definitely get a neuropsych. A good one - with IQ, full range of achievement and language testing, processing speed, recall, working memory, fluency, executive functioning, attention, anxiety and depression testing - should be able to define the issues. Meanwhile, please get audiobooks and show your kid how to use text to speech to read them worksheets, directions, webpages, etc. [/quote]
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