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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the school evaluated your child, you may request an IEE which would allow you to seek a private evaluation paid for by the public school.

Google independent educational evaluation. [/quote]

I don't think you said which state you're in, but I would suggest reaching out to Decoding Dyslexia (DDVA is pretty active, don't know about MD or DC).  Thas who I learned about IEE's from.  Their suggestion is to talk to whomever you'd like to go through for private testing first for guidance on what specifically to request for testing through your school.  Under IEE, you're allowed to get retesting done privately and covered if the scools testing is not adequate, but the private testing can't cover areas that weren't in the schools testing.  I learned about this too late for our initial round, but hope to get future testing covered.

My DC is strong in visual spatial and we found he faked reading to a certain point but basically couldn't decode at all.  He was also really good at guessing words from context (so he would "read" Earth instead of world, for example).  It turns out he has severe dyslexia and severe adhd even though we were discouraged from pursuing a dyslexia diagnosis.  In retrospect the biggest red flag was his absolute refusal to engage in reading activities.  Everyone blamed his poor reading on his refusal but it was the other way around.  He was struggling and was basically just getting told to try harder.  Since he was already trying as hard as he could, he concluded he was stupid.  Unfortunately this is really common for smart kids with dyslexia.

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