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[quote=Anonymous]I had my child who was showing red flags for dyslexia evaluated pre kindergarten at age 5. Evaluation came back as weaknesses consistent with dyslexia but dyslexia couldn’t be ruled in or out as they hadn’t received reading instruction with fidelity yet.

I’m not sure that you’ll be able to get an SLD IEP yet as before starting school there isn’t usually evidence that specialized instruction is required as no general instruction has even been given yet.

We’ve been doing 1 hr a week of private OG aligned therapy. We’re also in VA where public schools are legally required to provide literacy instruction aligned with the science of reading. A year in, we’re super happy. Child is fully keeping apace with grade level in literacy, has confidence and is voluntarily willing to practice reading. For our kid’s confidence, we were also super happy we were at a school where most kids also started K not knowing many letters etc. and the school didn’t expect more at the start. Private pre-k with an higher socioeconomic peer group expected more, which just led to low confidence and avoidance tactics which had to be unlearned.

Best of luck to your family.[/quote]

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