Well we finally got our diagnosis no thanks to school
We fought to have testing done for DD10 who has been having problems with reading and writing. School did do some testing (Achievement test) which showed that there was a severe discrepancy in several areas between her cognitive ability and her IQ however, since she is able to perform average work they will not consider her to have a disability or provide any services unless she starts to fail.
So we went to a specialist who has confirmed that she does have dyslexia. Now we are looking into special tutoring, which is all going to have to come out of our pocket
Some other ideas that he suggested are recorded books, keyboarding, and dictation software.
Anyone else out there have any suggestions?
I am still pissed at school though especially since teacher has been marking her papers all over with things like "You can do better then this!" and oh, my favorite DD wrote "big" instead of "pig" and teacher circled it with that ugly red pen and wrote "No Excuse!"
I don't know how much to blame her teacher though since the school psychologist told us and the teacher that she doesn't have a disability only a "relative weakness"
At least the school year is almost over. Hopefully tutoring will help!
