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[quote=Anonymous]No harm in getting one if it's an affordable option, and might give you some info that could help moving forward. If you get a diagnosis, could also give you better options with getting her support at school.

However I would like to echo a PP suggesting looking into other schooling options. Some kids just do not do well in a traditional classroom environment. She may be a more tactile learner or the kind of kid who needs reinforcement via multiple methods (reading it, hearing it, seeing it illustrated) to really commit knowledge like geography or months of the year to memory.

Even if you can't change schools, you might look into other educational approaches for how you support at home. It is really frustrating that the school is defaulting to these apps for everything, but also so common. In our house, we ignore the app homework often in favor of more hands on learning activities (using stacking blocks for math, encouraging physical writing for reading comprehension because the act of writing helps actually commit the information to memory and promotes understanding). Supporting in this way has done more to help our DD develop academically than if we'd just done what her public school teachers recommended and made sure she did extra iReady lessons at home.

Always remember you know your child best and while you can't ignore the advice and feedback of teachers, you get to choose how to interpret it and what to do with it. A teacher saying "she'll always be at the bottom" is a piece of information, but I wouldn't just acquiesce to it. She may just have academic needs that a typical classroom cannot meet. Many kids who get written off early in school have far more potential than their teachers ever imagined.[/quote]

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