I guess I'm just frustrated that I have heard that the school doesn't recognize dyslexia or that the state prefers a disorder of written expression diagnosis. They don't even present it as an option. It's in the federal law yet they have dismissed it. At the same time I recognize that we aren't in any position to fight it. I know that my DD would never qualify for an IEP at this point. She is working at grade level because we weren't willing to wait until she failed to get help. I don't know whether Congress realized the consequences of their actions when they eliminated the "discrepancy clause." It seems to have burned a lot of 2e kids. They had several special ed directors at the conference who noted that in our state the "magic" percentile number for arguing that it has impaired the child academically is the 12th percentile (bright line, no exceptions). Pete Wright started asking them how they handled borderline cases, i.e. 13th percentile, when I had to leave.
