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Originally Posted by the tiger
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No, there is no "cure" for dyslexia.
My youngest was dx'd with dyslexia in Aug. 2018. We had him privately evaluated because the county/state evaluates for an IEP only. And my son fell in to "average range"...so no IEP for him. Paid zero attention to the fact that he's dyslexic. Thankfully his school, a private school, takes private evals seriously and the accommodations recommended by.
He's a mild dyseidetic dyslexic who also has a "touch" of dysphonetic dyslexia (he also has mild APD: auditory processing disorder).
He's had private tutoring every Sat. since Sept. The center he attends uses the Orton-Gillingham approach.
It's expensive @$200/session. He was retested 2 weeks ago and the head of the tutoring center was so excited for him, she personally walked out to my car when I was waiting to pick him up and told me how well he did. We received his evaluation the following Sat. and he's knocking it out of the ball park.
He went from a 2nd grade level/low 3rd grade (he was entering 5th grade at 10 years old when we first had him tested) to a 7th and 8th grade level in some parts of the test. He's still struggling with visual memory and there is another part of the testing that has him at "early to mid 5th grade", when he's approaching the very end of 5th grade.
We're now down to 4 more months of tutoring, when at the start of, we were told that at this point he'd have another full year.
I have to do his "dyslexia" with him (this is what he calls it) 4 nights a week. He has a binder of his "homework". From dot maps to: "say mast"...now say "mast" without the "sss" (mat), and more.
It's not anything other than "retraining" the brain. How it works, I don't understand. But no "strategies" that I know of or have seen.
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