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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question really is what is wrong with the school that they haven’t caught it?  My dyslexic kid went to 4th grade unable to really read.  Every year from k-3, I went to the school and expressed concern and they told me she was fine.  She only got help when I found $4k to have an assessment done privately.

My other kid was diagnosed with so-called stealth dyslexia after junior year of high school.  She is incredibly bright and faked it through FCPS AAP without anyone knowing.

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Why do you assume the school hasn't flagged it? I'm a teacher and I cannot tell you how many former students I have whose parents have not agreed to the findings of the IEP team. [/quote]

How many of those parents disagreed because the IEP team said there was no problem, that there wasn’t enough of a discrepancy, etc.? I am in several LD groups and know hundreds of parents that have had to fight to get the school to acknowledge a problem and then fight for services.

I ended up having to hire my own tutor, even though the school has an obligation to remediate.  The school was not doing it.  They were refusing to give my child what she needed (systematic reading instruction, you know, based on actual science).  They were also shaming her for not working hard enough, being messy, etc.  in fourth grade, she was suicidal.  We were told to medicate her to get her through the year.  It was abusive the way the school treated her.  Even when she finally had an IEP, it was never followed.  They couldn’t even give her extended time and a quiet space to test.  That should be easy, but they put her out in the busy hallway to take tests because the resource room was closed on Fridays when all tests were given, then wondered why she struggled on them.

Eventually, rather than wasting time fighting and money on lawyers, we moved her to private school.  The public school systems have failed so many kids with LDs.  And don’t get me started in the kids whose parents are too busy trying to make ends meet or aren’t savvy enough to fight.  It’s shameful![/quote]

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