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Thank you, the extra tutoring was far less than private school tuition and we did slice and dice the budget some to do it, but our income is also sufficient so that is a plus too.  It helps that DH and I are naturally frugal people.  It has been a long hard slog and I have some PTS as a result, so we have not emerged unscathed.  DC is quite a remarkable kid.  His strengths equal or exceed his challenges.  The length and breadth of his accommodations are a result of having both severe/profound dyslexia and severe/profound dysgraphia.  It compounds things.[/quote]

Thanks for sharing.

Where did you get your dysgraphia tutor and can you recommend him or her?  Also, where did DC end up for high school and why were things so much better there?
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She wasn't specifically a "dysgraphia" tutor.  She was a reading teacher who also tutoring him in writing- helping him with graphic organizers and how to get from all of his ideas in his head to writing a paragraph, then essay.  I would reccommend her, highly, but she doesn't tutor.  SHe works in a public school as a reading specialist and DC was her only private client.  It was a special case kind of thing.

DC is at our local HS.  Things are much better than the local middle school because they "get" DC and have been proactive and supportive.  MS was a clusterfxck.  The admin there does not get it.  The head of special ed gets it, but her first day was also DC's first day and she got steam rollered by the Principal and a few teachers (who came around during the year), we were caught in her learning curve.  His "case manager" also didn't get 2E and the reading teacher was the most unqualified teacher I have ever met and was demoted the next year.  The highly recommended advocate we hired and the pyrimid person were not able to leave thier previous baggage at the door and were a disaster.  Luckily, we found someone from Gatehouse who came in and did some education of the teachers and adminstration and gave a backbone to the Special Ed chair.   The Gatehouse person was our savior.  She came to our IEP meeting stating everything we were saying and then listened to her.  [/quote]

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