Reply to Where to send a kid with Profound Dyslexia? Rejected everywhere.

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Where to send a kid with Profound Dyslexia? Rejected everywhere. "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my kids with multiple special needs spent K-12 in MCPS on an IEP (apart from a short stint in private), and we were happy with his services and accommodations. However, he did not have dyslexia. Also, we moved to Bethesda from a problematic school district, because we'd heard the schools were better at dealing with SN and also generally more able to focus on such needs instead of student hunger, physical safety, etc, since the neighborhood is wealthier. He was still bullied in elementary, but the school was very responsive and it stopped rapidly. There were still a few fights, but he was not part of them.

Can you move inbounds to a different public school that has a better reputation? We reasoned it was worth it, to invest our money in more expensive real estate instead of "consuming" it on private school... even if we could have found a private we liked (we never [b]did).

Dyslexia seems to be the only learning disability that schools don't readily cater to, for some unfathomable reason, which is incredibly irritating![/b] So your child needs intensive OG tutoring regardless of where he's educated. I suppose he's doing that right now? So a mix of public plus expensive and frequent OG tutoring might be a better use of your resources than trying to find a unicorn private school. DS had multiple therapies that happened every week, and then on days we didn't have them, I copied what happened in those sessions at home with him. It was the most rapid way to overcome his delays, both physical, behavioral, and academic. A ton of hard work on both our parts, but that way I leveraged the cost of therapies, coaching and tutoring in a really optimal way.

Best of luck, OP.

Money.  Pure and simple: dyslexia remediation doesn’t come cheap.  Op - you must AVOID the frequent calls on the board for MCPS.  They are peculiarly bad for dyslexia.  I would say Jemicy is your best option at this point.

[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics