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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you for opening my eyes to what I am currently experiencing at FCPS. I am equally frustrated and at the early stage.

In 2nd grade, my son became extremely frustrated, hated school, anger and emotions came out at home. At the same time he was complaining that letters reversed or appeared to float on the page while he was reading. This was brought up to me by the teacher and school counselor. Struggled with math visuals as well. We had a vision exam and obtained glasses for a light astigmatism. Teacher said I know visual therapists are out there. But, you'd have to look to asking your doctor. Asked doctor and was told dyslexia is a learning disability and we can't test for that.  Its the school district responsibility. At the end of year, his writing journal came home with likely 4 pages of partially written pages. During 2nd grade I had him evaluated for ADD - info provided by teacher and Dr. - provided that perhaps he was just a difficult child.

Fast forward to third grade, doing much better, teacher referred him to a reading resource program, but, as of late indicated he was not completing math problem and writing assignments, tests on par with his peers. We decided to move toward another eval for inattentive ADD.  Met with same dr. and teacher provided input. Perhaps a mild inattentive issue. At the same time I requested a meeting to address my concerns. My son is spelling words such as so as sow, said as sade, I could go on. He writes many words as they phonetically sound. When he writes he leaves no spaces between words and will cross out errors rather than erase (says the eraser hurts his ears).  But, I've read this can be tied to dyslexia, too. Because my son has tested well on his standardized tests he's deemed on par with his peers. He does well on spelling tests. But, when writing lots of spelling errors.  In the hour that I was in this meeting with 6 staff members of FCPS not one person would say the word dyslexia. I was the only one that referenced it. It was suggested that I go take my son back to an opthamalogist and perhaps his inattentive issues were related to anxiety. I felt they skirted the issue entirely. If his spelling errors when writing are on par with 3rd grade - very sad. The only thing they offered was to continue to redirect him to keep him on track, reading resource program - little detail on why he attends, and to have him meet with OT to look at the writing issue which they claim to be a fine motor issue. The kicker for me was when the school psychologist said I have to have the medical community diagnose for dyslexia. Really because they say its the responsibility of the school district as its a learning disability.  Apparently it is not available due to legislative mandate.

My son does not wear his glasses at home at all. They are left at school. He didnt wear them the first 2 months of school until the counselor mentioned it to his teacher. That really tells me that he doesn't need glasses.

In my research of dyslexia all these things apply. How can a school district dance around this.  I was told if I had any further info to share after seeing other professionals to bring it to their attention. We are military and moving to Norfolk. Hoping that I can find a school district that is experienced with services for kids with dyslexia.

How do I put this back to the school district. I 've relayed back to the teacher my disappointment with how the meeting went.  I asked her for more info on why he was referred to the reading program, what is his deficiency, what progress is being made, etc.  I also raised the spelling errors and asked what resources are available to address because I believe these to not be on par with his peers. It is through the appeal process or wait til the OT comes back and the teacher responds to my further inquiries.

Any advice on how to move through the process and be an advocate for my son is appreciated.[/quote]

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