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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS had qualified for full time gifted program in public school despite dyslexia.  Your kid would not be the only one like this at Siena.[/quote] wa

+1.  Our DS as well qualified for gifted MCPS math/science program in MS after spending ES at Siena.  I don't think he would have qualified in middle school if we hadn't sent him to Siena because he wouldn't have been able to read without Siena.

IME, Siena was willing to accommodate his above level math skill and interest by placing him in an above grade level class.  There was a very good science teacher who had some medical background who really fed DS's interest in medicine. Siena also made art class into something that was more suited to most dyslexic kids (who also often have problems with pencil control  and writing) which was a kind of shop/art class where they built things and used more aids to make art rather than just drawing or painting.

There were things that looked simplistic to me, that I recognized weren't taught in our public school -- sentence parts and grammar and how to "dress up" a sentence, handwriting, and more tolerance for audio-books when reading for comprehension.  I'm sure the latter looks like "going to easy" but many dyslexic kids find decoding so laborious that they don't have enough cognitive energy to also focus on meaning. When the class work involves understanding and discussing a book, it's preferable to allow a kid to listen to the story rather than read it because then they can participate in thinking about and discussing what they read. Anyway, my kid needed this kind of language instruction. And, BTW, he had never been diagnosed as "dyslexic" but rather as ADHD w/ language processing disorder.  Siena could see from testing that he really did need dyslexic-type instruction.  I do not think they would have accepted him if he had been ADHD without a reading disorder. Their language instruction is significantly different and would be unnecessary for an ADHD person with a language processing disorder or dyslexia. [/quote]

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