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[quote=Anonymous]Seems her biggest problem was undiagnosed dyslexia.
This would come from a neuropsych evaluation.

I've been thru the hoops of getting speech help for my child when she was in K. The sheer amount of waivers and permissions I had to sign from the NYC Dept. of Ed for a Wechsler test, speech evaluation, this evaluation, that evaluation... it was endless. Yes, the school system did amazingly well in terms of providing services but they can only do their job when a legal guardian is seeking services, giving the green light for evaluations and signing endless documents.
I've also met parents who refused to get their children any help because the parents were afraid of having it on the child's "records". This attitude is tragic for the child.

From what we see in the article, the mother was uninvolved, unaware and left her daughter to go it alone.
When did personal responsibility transfer to blaming "the system"? 
There was no way a this girl, as a minor, could get any form of learning disability evaluation without a guardian's permission.[/quote]

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