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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your approach is terrible and will bring nothing but frustration to you both.

As the adult who will be responsible for paying, you and your spouse need to sit down and figure out your budget including travel costs.

Then narrow down how realistically far from home you and your child want to be. Then consider culture and size of school and school location - very rural , suburban, etc , Christian school ok? schools with big greek life and small student population? etc

Use online tools to narrow down choices

Has your child had specific reading instruction for dyslexic students preferably by a private provider bc schools generally provide poor remediation. If not do that now. Also get access to audiobook services.

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We realize we need a better approach which is why we are asking for help.

DD’s reading is fully remediated (identified in K and OG through 8th), but she will always be a slower and more effortful reader than her peers. She uses a full suite of tools including screen readers, audiobooks, Grammarly etc. She is now working on her foreign language requirement instead of exempting it. She anticipates having to take a foreign language in college so she sees this as good preparation. We are doing OG-style home support for the language learning.

As a military family it is really hard to know where our home will be when she starts college. Whether or not I can work is also a big unknown (depends on location). So we are relying on GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon program as more conservative funding options. We also don’t want to prematurely rule out schools which might be a great fit on money alone as we do have college savings, but she was hoping to use those for grad school.

We were hoping to build a bigger list and then narrow down with those geographic and cultural features you mentioned. That is why we spent our time in the US last summer touring different types of schools.

Frustration is nothing new to parents of kids with learning differences. I appreciate all of the helpful suggestions we’ve received so far. [/quote]

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