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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's hard for people to pick up that a kid is dyslexic because there's an assumption it's something that it's not. DH likely has it and grew up with a mom who was a teacher and never noticed it. He felt stupid all through attending very well-respected schools because he could never really keep up. He has it mildly enough that he could figure out strategies that made it seem like he was getting it - reading one thing and making an interesting point about it so it was clear he did the work, even though he never made it through reading it all, etc.

No one noticed it in our kid either, and we were regularly told he would likely catch up, until suddenly one day it was like an emergency and we were made to feel terrible parents for not addressing it earlier (although we had been asking about it!). There was always an assumption we just weren't really interested in teaching him or didn't have the capacity or something (?). If we got that as middle-class white people with advanced degrees, I can't even imagine the judgment a low-income POC would likely get.

I don't understand why schools can't just use approaches that would help everyone. We're moving in that direction but aren't there yet. Now we are told our kid needs to go through several rounds of targeted intervention to see if he's "just behind" before the school will consider an IEP. Also told that "you might actually get better services without the IEP," which is ludicrous and offensive. We finally found a great outside tutor (after wasting time on a bad one for six months), but it's a lot for an elementary kid to go to school all day and then go to a tutor, especially when school is extra hard for a kid with dyslexia. The cost of tutoring makes me think maybe we should just spend the money on a dyslexia school. It's infuriating that all kids can't get good educations, regardless of disability and income.[/quote]

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