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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t spend $5k on the evaluation for one thing. [/quote]

and how do you do that? Different poster but would love to hear the alternatives.[/quote]

you get the free evals the school will give you adn that's it[/quote]

If I had waited for that to happen back in 1st grade when I had suspicions, I’d still be waiting. There are a million reasons they won’t test, [b]especially if the kid’s IQ is high.[/b]  [/quote]

DP - IME, it's the opposite, since most public school systems still use the discrepancy model.  It's the kids who are otherwise very smart and who struggle with reading who get attention in public schools without much advocacy from parents.  That describes my dyslexic kid to a T.  Our public ES was fully onboard with Tier 2 intervention, then testing, and now a behemoth of an IEP (we'll see how well it's implemented).

The kids who truly fall through the cracks are the ones with average-ish IQ, because the system doesn't see much of a discrepancy between that and struggling to read.  That's a failure of the system, but it's very common.  They just keep getting promoted and everyone thinks they're just "average," not, hey, this kid really can't read and gee, maybe that's impacting their academic performance.

There are also free and low-cost programs based on Phono-Graphix with strong evidence (the Reading Reflex book and also materials through EBLI and Reading Simplified).  As a parent, they've been a good supplement to the other services DS has.[/quote]

That's interesting because my 2E kid was being passed over because he was so sweet and paid attention and had a good vocabulary. I got "things will click soon!" for a year before I just paid for the testing myself and found out he's extremely dyslexic. [/quote]

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