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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can afford private school you can afford a trained reading tutor at your home three times a week.  Do not do this yourself.  Do not wait on the school.  Skilled instructors can teach even dyslexic children to read if the student is still young enough.[/quote]

We brought in a trained reading tutor for our non-reading rising first grader.  DS could not even recognize all the letters of the alphabet.  A NP evaluation gave him a dyslexia diagnosis.  After one session the tutor, an OG trained DC public school teacher, was confident she could teach him to read.  She said even dyslexic children could learn to read well if reached before the end of first grade.  She did not seem to think teaching our DS to read was even a big challenge.  We were skeptical.

It worked!  Apparently the methods to teach children like this are well known and effective.  OG method and repetition ...[/quote]

Makes you wonder why so many schools moved away from phonics, repetition and Og-like teaching and instead do brute force memorizing and whole language. No doubt the latter is less effort than the former.[/quote]

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