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[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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I'm the original PP who is happy with how MCPS has handled my child's IEP for dyslexia.

This post strikes me as an example of letting the perfect (testing before offering Tier 2 intervention) be the enemy of the good (in this case, moving to evaluation after ~two months of Tier 2 intervention with failure to respond).  Our kid's teachers and administrators didn't try to "convince" us of anything.  We knew our kid was struggling, they recommended evidence-based intervention, we tried that for about two months, and then all agreed to move to evaluation.  He's doing well with the help he's currently receiving and his teachers have communicated well with us this year.

If you consider that a "failure," we define that word differently.  [/quote]

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