It can't hurt to have her eyes testing, but if it's not that I would make sure testing includes dyslexia. If she's spending all of her cycles just figuring out what the words are, she will be tired out by reading, have low fluidity, and poor comprehension. Poor writing is also related to dyslexia for some people.

How does she do with audio books? How does she do with dictating her writing? If she does better with both of those, I would definitely start doing those until you can get her tested.

5:55 again, and my kid was a very slow reader with poor processing speed and suspected ADHD before we got her eye issues figured out. Turns out she is very farsighted and needs not just glasses but a magnifying bookmark that allows her to focus on one or two lines of text at a time to help her read and keep focused on particular words. Ask her if the words ever jump around on the page or if she gets tired because she has to focus hard to make them stay in place.

Another vote for getting her eyes tested by an opthalmologist or developmental optometrist before you pursue a full neuropsych evalution.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can afford to spend $2500-3000 I recommend Mindwell Psychology.

If you want to increase the chance that more of the cost will be covered by your health insurance Id try Choldrens Hospial, INOVA Keller or Kennedy Krieger.

Is one better than the others? What Dr.'s are good to see at these places?

You don’t pick your doctor. You get whoever has the irat appointment. Children and KKI have long waitlists (a year sometimes) but if you are persistent and lucky and able take a last minute cancellation you may get in faster.

Anonymous wrote:If you can afford to spend $2500-3000 I recommend Mindwell Psychology.

If you want to increase the chance that more of the cost will be covered by your health insurance Id try Choldrens Hospial, INOVA Keller or Kennedy Krieger.

Is one better than the others? What Dr.'s are good to see at these places?

Have you had her eyes checked out to be sure she is seeing without any slight abstraction?

If you can afford to spend $2500-3000 I recommend Mindwell Psychology.

If you want to increase the chance that more of the cost will be covered by your health insurance Id try Choldrens Hospial, INOVA Keller or Kennedy Krieger.

My DD who is 10 and in 5th grade told me she doesn't like to read because there are two many words and it tires her brain out. Is this a sign of something? She is a bright child (in AAP) but she always barely passes SOLs in reading. She only wants to read graphic novels and she hates writing. She is also a very poor writer. She struggles to come up with ideas and put thoughts to paper. When we had a WISC done for AAP it was shown that she has poor working memory (85% but 2 std deviations from her FSIQ) and slow processing (30%). She has poor executive function and anxiety. I suspect that at a minimum, she also has ADHD inattentive but we have no diagnoses for that. We have not had her fully tested. Any recommendations of where to go for a full on psych evaluation? I understand there will be wait lists

Also, this comment about "there are two many words and it tires her brain out" does they signal to anyone that she has any particular issues based on your own child? Her teacher said, "I worry that she is distracted and/or not interested in reading and she doesn't put enough effort or thought into what she is supposed to be doing." To me that's code for "your child has ADHD" but maybe I'm projecting. Thoughts? We're heading into MS in a year and I'd like to get her the help she needs before she's drowning.