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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP - MCPS thought my child was dyslexic.  A private evaluation showed my child had ADHD impacting reading comprehension with some decoding problems affecting fluency.  She initially was 2 grades behind with reading till we placed her with a private tutor that did a summer program of Lindamood Bell.

Knowing the correct diagnosis made it possible to get my child help, even though the cost was over $10,000 for the private evaluation and tutoring.  Worth it to us so my child could learn how to read. Not all families though have the finances to pay what we did just so their child can be educated.

MCPS skimps on the evaluations and services to the point many children with disabilities do not have access to educational opportunities.  [/quote]

MCPS should be providing all kids with extra reading support by 2nd grade if they are not reading.  I'd prefer to see it happen in 1st grade.  If kids cannot read, they cannot be successful in any of their classes.  Its shameful how we don't catch things early and when parents do, MCPS ignores it as the parents are doing it privately.  We spent who knows how much on private therapies and getting help with MCPS was a joke.[/quote]

My daughter received As on book report summaries based on the pictures in the book.  I had read the book just to see what she had been assigned to read and when I read her book report, I could tell that she wrote her own story.  I scheduled a teacher conference to show the teacher the book and report.  The book was of my daughter’s choice so the teacher had not read it, but she agreed my daughter’s book report was her own made up story based on the pictures in the book.

Prior to 3rd grade, my daughter kept missing benchmarks and we were told that some kids take till 3rd grade to learn how to read.  We were told to be patient and she would eventually get there. However, when she was in third grade, the school told us that there was nothing they could do. She couldn’t read chapter books and they told us they didn’t have a reading intervention program or a reading specialist to work with her because it wasn’t in the third grade curriculum. For the MCPS Special Ed evaluation, they tested her for the WRONG disability the IEP team then said she didn’t have a disability.

We didn’t care if MCPS documented the disability but what drove us to pay $5,000 for a private evaluation was when the school washed their hands of teaching a child to read.  Students deserve to come first, but unless Dr. McKnight overhauls how Special Education identifies and educates children, students with disabilities will continue to be ignored at the school level.[/quote]

Special education isn't going to change for a long time and if you wait your child is going to fall behind.  We heavily supplemented in ES and did private therapies.[/quote]

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