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[quote=Anonymous]It's really kid dependent -- (1) how impacted is your daughter (i.e. how bad are her percentiles on the dyslexia-specific sub-scores), and how does she compare to grade-level on reading and writing? (2) how committed would she be to remediation, and 'working the program' at a dyslexia-specific school? It's not easy getting a private tutor -- particularly once 5x a week -- so dyslexic schools are appealing in building in that remediation. It's also a big burden to commit to those additional tutoring hours before and after school.

Our daughter might have had a similar profile -- high intelligence, extremely strong and interested in math, ADHD, not that behind based on grade level assessments but clearly very impacted. Given Covid--public school never even tested her, hard to get in-person tutors--we sent her to a dyslexia school for several years. It's hard to evaluate, in hindsight, how she might have fared with public school and tutoring, but some disadvantages to a dyslexia-specific school that we saw: (1) While they focus on remediation, they're not going to "push" your daughter (especially if she's not "that behind"), creating challenges if she doesn't want to do the (admittedly boring) OG remediation work. After four years, our DD was essentially level with where she started-- ~ 6 months off from grade level. (2) "Everything else" academic is going to be watered down. Initially, given the open placements, DD was immediately moved up one year in math, but they couldn't continue to accommodate past sixth grade. (3) Notwithstanding specific executive function accommodations built in, given the general watering down of academic demands, there will be a (potentially rough) transition when they move to a new public/private school, with increased homework and studying demands. (4) There will be many rambunctious boys (dyslexia=ADHD). 
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