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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is going to disproportionately impact students with dyslexia who haven’t received adequate services.

It’s hugely damaging to the kid. They should instead be doing universal dyslexia screenings in 1st grade and provide services to all kids who have dyslexia. [/quote]

Wait, they don't do universal dyslexia screenings in 1st? That is shocking to me. I thought that was standard.

DCPS does universal screenings.[/quote]

My kid is 1st and all I know is they administer DIBELS 3x per year. My kid was in the "needs support" category for most of K and beginning of 1st and they didn't offer much support. We got tutoring outside of school and kid is on track now. [/quote]

This is the issue.

They use DIBELS, which is fine for flagging kids who are at risk, but they don’t follow up with proper supports.

If you don’t give OG tutoring to a kid who needs support in 1st grade, then by the time they get to 3rd/4th, it is much harder to teach them to read.

It’s in part neurological. Literally you can help rewire a kid’s brain in 1st and 2nd with proper OG tutoring.

By 3rd/4th, their brain is developed such that it’s harder to rewire.

So there’s a clear window. This is well known in the scientific community. MCPS is literally being negligent by not supporting these kids. They are knowingly dooming them.

— A mom of a dyslexic kid who is livid about this. She is ahead in 3rd because we pay $20,000/year for private tutoring. MCPS was ZERO help.[/quote]

Can I ask where you (or other posters) found help? My K kid was flagged as “needs support” in PSF but as far as I can tell the only support he gets is occasionally being pulled out of class to see if he scores higher next time.

I’m not in MCPS, (balt county, private) but I’d love to find good help rather than trying to cobble this together myself. [/quote]

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