Susan,
DD is getting Wilson through school on an IEP. We coasted through the process, benefiting from the fact that a dozen families filed a complaint with the department of ed for its lack of responsiveness to kids much more hampered by their dyslexia. The state found in favor of the parents and made it clear there was no appeals process. There's been a big shake up, a change of tune, and state oversight.
That being said, it still took nearly a year and there were errors-- DD's teacher told me she suspected a disability on Nov 9 of last year. That should have triggered child find. Instead, I took DD for private testing, and produced the scores in a meeting Feb 8. We signed the IEP on Moday.
We also hired an advocate, who got us a much better document than we would have otherwise had, though we didn't have to fight to get it. In years past, an advocate would have been necessary to get the IEP at all.
Privately, we'd started OG tutoring at the university's teaching and learning tutoring center. DD and I also did some of Sequential Spelling together, and we flirted with an independent tutor. The Sequential Spelling improved things a lot, but only to a point. The independent tutor didn't seem to get DD, and couldn't quite click with DD's massive vocabulary. The university center was the best since they were used to tutoring across a much broader level, and DD presented as a fascinating case.
