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Dyslexic school or public program

Author:
David

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Date Posted: 19:53:14 10/05/11 Wed

Hi! My son is 7 and just entered 1st grade. The school district encouraged us to put him into special education because he was diagnosed with dyslexia. However, we argued to mainstream him with some private help they agreed to give.

Now after a month, I see that all of the teachers involved have no understanding of dyslexia or adaptive techniques. Furthermore, after our 3rd IEP meeting, the most they seem to comprehend is adaptive techniques for testing. I am more interested in adaptive techniques for learning! They are testing him on things like writing and reading and he can't do either. They may as well just give him a zero and skip the test.

At this point, I realize I am jeopardizing valuable time at his age and think that perhaps the school was right and their special education program may be better for him. We have utilized their special ed teacher for private tutoring for the last 3 months and she really is a gem.

However, our concern was that we would be putting him into a group of children with many different problems and the education level would most likely be lowered due to this. Furthermore, these kids are not all dyslexic (he may be only one) so are they really going to tailer learning to my son.

Our other option is a private school focused only on dyslexia which is also in our town. This school has an incredibly low enrollment (40 students grade 1-8). It is expensive. Also we would then need to transition back to regular school at grade 9.

We are soooo confused and unsure what to do. I can't help but feel that this decision is unbelievably important for the future of my son, and I am very afraid to make the wrong choice.

Any feedback or advice you have would be very welcome. Thank you

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Replies:

Subject	Author	Date
Re: Dyslexic school or public program	Shanda	13:42:07 10/06/11 Thu

Re: Dyslexic school or public program	DeeDee Pulver (helpful)	07:27:29 10/07/11 Fri

Re: Dyslexic school or public program	Erv Allen (It's a very good day in Wisconsin)	12:02:04 10/14/11 Fri

Re: Dyslexic school or public program	pthutah	19:35:33 10/17/11 Mon

Re: Dyslexic school or public program	Lim yanlinf (Happy glad)	21:13:09 10/17/11 Mon

Re: Dyslexic school or public program	philip r	13:16:56 10/19/11 Wed