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[quote=Anonymous]Yes.  It happened  to us.  Here is the US Department of Ed guidance on dyslexia which says there is nothing that prevents schools from identifying dyslexia in the IEP (It is mentioned in IDEA.)

http://www2.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/memosdcltrs/guidance-on-dyslexia-10-2015.pdf

This letter may also be helpful to you: 
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/memosdcltrs/13-008520r-sc-delisle-twiceexceptional.pdf

OP:  bring copies of work that demonstrates the struggle.  Bring the tester if you can.  Bring information about the benefits of Orton-Gillingham instruction (the Yale Center on dyslexia will have this.) Another website that is helpful: 
http://www.dys-add.com/

DCPS as a system and its special education teachers have access to the Wilson Reading Program which is OG.

DIBELS is a screening test for lexile levels, but it does not screen for dyslexia. You can have a kid with a high lexile level because of their vocabulary, but it does not mean they do not have problems decoding. Don't let them go there when CTOPP and other tests are more reliable ways to screen for dyslexia.

Finally, the school psychologist's handbook for DCPS still urges the use of testing measures and the discrepency method to ascertain the need for instruction while minimizing what happens with classroom performance.  This maikes it very hard to get services from DCPS unless there is an ASD or physical impairment diagnosis.  There is more than one psychologist who does not believe dyslexia warrants anything but accomodations if the child is passing classes.  I ran into at least two.  GL!

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