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[quote=Anonymous]My kid has pretty significant dyslexia and we had been doing daily remediation tutoring for 5 months with almost no progress... until he was medicated for his ADHD.  It's not that he had ADHD and NOT dyslexia - he has both.  But without medicating the ADHD, he couldn't get past the "distraction" to actually let the remediation lessons sink in and to learn to read.  Within six months of starting the ADHD meds (and remediation ongoing) he was at least at the very bottom edge of "normal" and within 18 months of that he was actually getting an "advanced pass" on the reading SOL.  But he still very much has dyslexia.  With the meds on board, he's been able to learn how to decode, but he still reads slowly and his spelling is abysmal.

I'd guess that if the reading issues were fixed in as short as a week of starting meds, then that's not dyslexia.  But it's also pretty uncommon for good testers to find dyslexia when it isn't there, so keep an eye on it, maybe there are some challenges that you want to be aware of in case they come up as school gets harder in future years.[/quote]

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