Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD has dyslexia which has been remediated. Tests in gifted range for verbal and visual-spatial, struggles in math. Any thoughts on our list of schools to explore? We’re looking for a unicorn school with faculty and staff who understand that you can be bright AND have dyslexia.

Burke
SSFS
Holy Child
Bullis
SJC

Have 2e DS with remediated dyslexia - would focus on what the accommodations or needs your kid has and then explore with the schools. They are different for different factors. Some schools and even teachers within the different schools don’t “get” that it takes some kids with dyslexia longer to read or spells some types of words wrong etc but that doesn’t mean they are a “slow” reader at all in terms of comprehension, associative thinking etc. and if they are exceptional in those areas they actually top at those. It’s defies stereotypes many have - even if they are in academic support.
For math issues - consider if the struggles are organizational and planning or comprehension or both. This past year, had to keep going into a school which is generally good at support but not getting need for continuing options for graphing math and some other types of dyslexia impacted areas.
Have heard the best things lately about Bullis, Good Counsel and for girls Holy Child related to LD supports in high school that are HS appropriate.

OP here - thanks so much for these comments and specific guidance on math difficulty! I know we won't find the perfect school, but it will be better to have DD someplace where more faculty and staff "get" her. Especially when paying for private school!

Anonymous wrote:DD has dyslexia which has been remediated. Tests in gifted range for verbal and visual-spatial, struggles in math. Any thoughts on our list of schools to explore? We’re looking for a unicorn school with faculty and staff who understand that you can be bright AND have dyslexia.

Burke
SSFS
Holy Child
Bullis
SJC

Have 2e DS with remediated dyslexia - would focus on what the accommodations or needs your kid has and then explore with the schools. They are different for different factors. Some schools and even teachers within the different schools don’t “get” that it takes some kids with dyslexia longer to read or spells some types of words wrong etc but that doesn’t mean they are a “slow” reader at all in terms of comprehension, associative thinking etc. and if they are exceptional in those areas they actually top at those. It’s defies stereotypes many have - even if they are in academic support.
For math issues - consider if the struggles are organizational and planning or comprehension or both. This past year, had to keep going into a school which is generally good at support but not getting need for continuing options for graphing math and some other types of dyslexia impacted areas.
Have heard the best things lately about Bullis, Good Counsel and for girls Holy Child related to LD supports in high school that are HS appropriate.

Madeira

Anonymous wrote:My 2E kid has had a good experience at Burke!

Def do your homework re Burke. They kicked out DC’s good friend senior year when they decided they couldn’t support them.

My 2e dyslexic kid is knocking it out of the park at SSSAS. I think a lot of the schools with at least a decent learning center can meet the needs of that kind of profile.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the responses! I wasn’t sure about GC because their Ryken program with separate classes seems more for LD kids who don’t test in the gifted range, but I’ll investigate further.

My response about the Ryken program belonged here not in response to the SSFS post. Apologies.

My son is 2E and is thriving in Ryken with a 4.0, etc

So happy your son has found a good fit!

Is there any stigma to being in the program since some of the classes are separate?

My son has so many friends, and most are not in the Ryken program. In fact, the majority of his friends are NOT in the Ryken program. He meets them in electives, study hall, lunch, other activities, through other friends. He has a few very good friends in the Ryken program, but two of them he’s known since kindergarten.

He LOVES school, and it wasn’t until he got to GC that he felt understood. His teachers finally accepted him for who he was - a truly amazing mind with a few needs. Very few compared to his peers. He doesn’t even use his accommodations usually bc he feels like the classes are really chunked appropriately for him. I am a HUGE advocate of the program. You start with the training wheels on and the take them off when you’re ready. That happens sooner for some, later for others. In my son’s case, he will hardly be in the program this year (2 classes) By senior year, he will just have the language class, which is typical. We have worked hand and hand with the Ryken director to appropriately challenge him and remove those safeguards when it was time.

Anonymous wrote:My 2E kid has had a good experience at Burke!

Does your kid have dyslexia?

My 2E kid has had a good experience at Burke!

Anonymous wrote:Why isn’t McLean on your list?

DP. Many of the schools that focus on/specialize in learning differences do not also challenge a gifted student (2E) very well. (According to both the psychologist who assessed my 2E kid and our personal experience.)