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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ds has a significant speech delay, and so we've been on the lookout for possible dyslexia.  We had a great evaluation done when he was 5.  As a PP said, she did a lot of sound segmenting and blending testing.  Not once was he asked to write b or d to see if he reverses letters.  The evaluator stressed that he was young so she couldn't say anything definitive, but at that age should would be able to see if there are any real red flags and start working with him if needed.  [/quote]

By age 5, our dyslexic dysgraphic child showed significant discrepancies in testing on phonics, segmentation and blending and auditory processing.  It was too early to assess reading, because it is not expected that kids will read by age 5.  And, our bright DS could compensate in other ways to make it appear as if he was reading.  But, the high variability in the tests, especially when read against a 99.5%ile IQ, showed clear problems.

The school insisted on waiting to do anything until 3rd grade.

In retrospect, I wish I had paid for a private tutor OG or Wilson tutor to work with DC 1-2x a week (with us as parents "practicing" on other days).  I think if we had done this, DC would have developed language and reading more normally and we could have mitigated the other problems that developed (spelling/encoding).

Fortunately, by 3rd grade, I realized the school had no idea what needed to be done, and we pulled DC and put him in private SN school in 4th grade where he got daily 1hr plus reading instruction w/ OG, Wilson, Lindamood Bell, Phonographix, etc.  He responded very well.  In only a couple of years, he is reading above grade level.

I really think we caught him at the edge of a window that was about to close.  If we had waited much longer, (like middle school) or not done it as intensively, I think he would have still ended up being able to read, but never with the automaticity that one needs to read with ease.

So, I hope our story encourages you to give your child a different kind of instruction early on, even if the school doesn't agree with it and refuses to provide it. [/quote]

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