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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you choose not to pay for, or cannot afford, intervention for learning disabilities, you severely curtail the earning potential of the child in question.

The families who cannot afford evaluations and therapies can teach their own child how to read if they're intelligent and have the time and energy. It's all based on phonemes, and from there, identifying where exactly your kid has issues. It takes a LOT of time to work on it by yourself.

The families who could afford to remediate their children's LDs but choose not to (usually because they're too proud to admit their kid has issues) don't realize how badly they're impacting their children's future. My best friend did this. Her kid is college-age now but is not college material. The parents are having serious regrets.
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This question haunts me. My DD was fortunate to be diagnosed in K and did OG and then dyslexia school. It was breathtakingly expensive.

For some families curricula like Barton, Wilson, or Toe by Toe can be delivered at home.

But dyslexia is highly heritable and there is a good chance the parents of a dyslexic child may not be able to teach those curricula since they were not appropriately taught to read either. And they may also be underemployed/ working multiple jobs which take a lot of energy and doesn’t leave much time or energy for after school tutoring.

I eventually got trained as an OG tutor myself. I learned that many people who do this work keep at least 1 student spot for pro bono students. This is my retirement job plan.

I wish there was a way to create some sort of “savings and loan” where parents of dyslexic kids could borrow to pay for intervention and then when they are successful, make a donation later to support future students.

In my professional work I coach a lot of neurodiverse executives and they all talk about the sacrifices their families made to help them be successful.[/quote]

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