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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think dyslexia always presents in one particular way.  Our child has orthographic dyslexia and she has good decoding/phonemic awareness and can nail nonsense words.  But her reading is slow and she had trouble with sight words.  She'd see the word "could" on a page 4 times and each time act like it was the first time she ever saw it.  The whole thing was confusing and the result was we kept waiting and waiting and the school kept thinking things were fine.  She was getting straight As (but she's 2e).  But she kept getting flagged in DIBELS.  And as kids started really making jumps in reading from 3rd to 4th grade, that's when the gap really came, but really only through the testing.  As a parent, it's hard to tell.  You don't have 1000 kids lined up in front of you to compare their reading abilities.  Did your child take the DIBELS assessments at school and how were those?  I would see if you can find specific reading testing for $500 and do that, just so you know.  As others have said, early intervention can be very important.  I feel like we lost a lot by not figuring this out until 4th grade.[/quote]

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