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The end goal is to be a financially independent adult, OP.

This means going to college, since the income gap between non-college educated adults and college-educated adults keeps widening.

This means having solid reading comprehension skills as well as solid writing skills! College admissions get more competitive every year. You can't just walk into your state U anymore. UMD and UVA both require top GPAs and if you submit a standardized test score, they need to be high.

I cannot overstate the importance of working on this! You need to persuade/bribe/crush your middle schooler's opposition to additional tutoring because she does not realize she's sabotaging herself for life. Explain it and say it's non-negotiable.

I'm not an expert on dyslexia. But my son with several learning disabilities, ADHD and HFA needed to work specifically on reading comprehension and a skill called inferencing (understanding unwritten information from context clues). He had a writing tutor that worked on all aspects of written organization and reading comprehension, but mostly on inferencing, for most of middle school, and then he had ACT test prep in high school, as well as occasional tutoring for some of his AP course work. We have spent a small fortune on this, and it's been worth it: he would never have made all the progress he has without one-on-one tutoring.

Please tell your child that families who can afford it pay for tutors to increase their kids' changes of getting into a good college, even if they have good grades to begin with and no learning disability. In my corner of Bethesda, most students will have a tutor for something at some point, whether they're in private or public!

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter finished the OG program in 6tj grade. She can read but it is not something she enjoys. Her handwriting is terrible. Spelling is terrible. She has accomdations at school

She has learned to enjoy audio books and is great at speak to text. I think the endgame is that dyslexia doesn’t go away but there are technologies available to help.

Thanks. Their school is 100% focused on (minimal) accommodations. Now that kid tests in passing range for grade level for reading - on multiple-choice tests that are easily guessed - they no longer think it’s an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:I would spend the next 6 years with a writing tutor to help you child learn to formulate a good paper.

In college, mostly, my kids needed help with papers. They were excellent at projects and presentations which I joke is because they had an accommodation to do tests orally.

My kids feel that typing helps spelling since the computer spell checks. Voice to text also was very helpful.

I remember middle school just being the tipping point where they could not take any more OG.

Thanks. Writing tutor was our plan after “finishing” OG. Might be next step if we can’t make OG happen.

Suggestions on finding a writing tutor for kids with dyslexia?

I do not, I'm a little "out of the game" since my kids are in college now. I'd check with ASDEC.

Also, my kids did tutoring for the SAT/ACT. We set 10 days aside after school was over and did 10 straight days of tutoring, then took the exam right after the tutoring. Treated each day like a 5 hour school day.

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Anonymous wrote:I would spend the next 6 years with a writing tutor to help you child learn to formulate a good paper.

In college, mostly, my kids needed help with papers. They were excellent at projects and presentations which I joke is because they had an accommodation to do tests orally.

My kids feel that typing helps spelling since the computer spell checks. Voice to text also was very helpful.

I remember middle school just being the tipping point where they could not take any more OG.

Thanks. Writing tutor was our plan after “finishing” OG. Might be next step if we can’t make OG happen.

Suggestions on finding a writing tutor for kids with dyslexia?

Anonymous wrote:My daughter finished the OG program in 6tj grade. She can read but it is not something she enjoys. Her handwriting is terrible. Spelling is terrible. She has accomdations at school

She has learned to enjoy audio books and is great at speak to text. I think the endgame is that dyslexia doesn’t go away but there are technologies available to help.

Anonymous wrote:I would spend the next 6 years with a writing tutor to help you child learn to formulate a good paper.

In college, mostly, my kids needed help with papers. They were excellent at projects and presentations which I joke is because they had an accommodation to do tests orally.

My kids feel that typing helps spelling since the computer spell checks. Voice to text also was very helpful.

I remember middle school just being the tipping point where they could not take any more OG.

Anonymous wrote:Private Lindamood Bell tutoring at a LMB center. LMB (per fidelity) took my child from a dyslexia level diagnosis to testing above average and no longer meeting the clinical criteria. It is worth the money.

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Anonymous wrote:Private Lindamood Bell tutoring at a LMB center. LMB (per fidelity) took my child from a dyslexia level diagnosis to testing above average and no longer meeting the clinical criteria. It is worth the money.

I mean, if they’ve started and almost finished OG, they know that. OP if you’re in the area asdec is great. How about one of the intense summer programs?

Anonymous wrote:Private Lindamood Bell tutoring at a LMB center. LMB (per fidelity) took my child from a dyslexia level diagnosis to testing above average and no longer meeting the clinical criteria. It is worth the money.