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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our third grader was diagnosed with specific learning disability/dyslexia at the end of second grade.  The data used to diagnose him came from testing MCPS did, which was thorough and IMO an accurate reflection of his strengths and weaknesses.  He has a hefty IEP that's being implemented this year, including 90 minutes of daily reading instruction (mostly small group and not all at once), along with other accommodations.  We may need to supplement more if they insist on OG only, but I'm hoping for flexibility to use more accelerated evidence-based approaches.

We haven't had to fight the school at all, yet.    [b]They implemented an evidence-based Tier 2 intervention last year and then we moved to the evaluation/IEP when he failed to respond to that. [/b] So, apparently our school is a unicorn, but in our experience, at least MCPS can and does identify "dyslexia" and is helping to remediate it.  [/quote]

What is the name of your school?[/quote]

I know that sounds good -- Tier 2 intervention, but the law says the schools do not have to use a Response to Intervention model and can't make parents wait for kid to "fail" RTI before offering an evaluation, so actually your school failed you.  If your student was having enough trouble to offer Tier 2, the school just should have done an evaluation right away.

MCPS often tries to convince parents that they have to try "intervention" first before getting an IEP -- it's not true and it's not legal.

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Yeah this sounds more on point to me.  (Parent of dyslexic in MCPS in the crucial early years, now a decade out, praise Jesus himself.)

I have said it before - and I’ll say it again - it is criminal to use the ‘wait to fail’ model but this is MCPS culture towards their dyslexic students.  In our day (my kid will graduate next year from a different county’s high school (Frederick) and just received acceptances to 8 of 10 universities with significant merit from all but one) this felt very far away. (We left Moco in second grade.) This success these past 2 weeks is despite an MCPS ‘education’.

If you have a child in the system you are facing an organization who will lie.  It will lie behind your back.  It will lie to your face.  It is a school system who had no honor towards dyslexic students in their care before the pandemic and I cannot imagine how poorly it must be treating their dyslexic students in the years after pandemic.

You are the hero your dyslexic kid is looking for!

ASDEC is the life boat you’re looking for.  
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This is 100 percent accurate! MCPS educator with a child with an LD[/quote]

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