Feeling really mind-boggled right now. This week, I’ve talked with two trusted advisors. One was DD’s teacher last year, a great teacher, knows DD well, and has a lot of spec education experience including teaching gifted classes for many years. The other is a friend who is herself a teacher with a lot of spec ed experience (and her husband’s dyslexic, so she’s had a strong interest in the issue over the years). I was pretty astounded when both immediately began talking about alternative schools and special LD classrooms, an approach that really had not seriously crossed my mind yet and I guess I would have considered a pretty last resort. Are they hugely over-reacting? Am I failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation?
These are two people with 30 years each experience in my school system, and each was assuming pretty instantly that our regular school system was no place for a child with dyslexia.
Wow.
