Schools used to perform vision and hearing screening, possibly they no longer do, or not in your area.
The vision and hearing screenings provided at school are simply that - screens. They aren't the type of evaluation that would look for or uncover a visual processing challenge or an auditory processing challenge.
If you have a good regional Children's Hospital, that may be one place to start. If they do not offer coordinated, integrated services to screen for learning difficulties, they may be willing to establish such a practice. So much of what we do may not help our children directly, but may help others, raise awareness, and change society for the next generation. In many ways, we are pioneers.
While we may be pioneers, and the advocacy of one parent may in turn benefit many who follow, this is one small pet peeve of mine. (Please know I'm not picking on you indigo.) Sometimes as parents of children with challenges, there are times we're going to run into a brick wall where it is easy for a bystander looking in from the outside to say - fight this, make a change here, stand up for what's right and make a difference for everyone else who will come after us. If we have the time and energy and passion to do so, that's great, and yes, we can change the world. But for most of us, caught up in the day-to-day challenge of parenting a child with a challenge, we don't have the time and energy left over to make a change for everyone else - we have to focus on meeting the needs of our own children first.
polarbear
