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My sons go to catholic schools and one gets resource thru the district for a reading disability. He is diagnosed as learned disabled. He gets resource x 5 times a week and also OT once a week.
Three of his friends also cannot read. One is rx'd with dislexsic, the other two I dont know their rx but the three of them receive speech therapy thru the district. Now the dislexsic child has to go to public school as the district told the parents they do not have resources to to have a teacher come in daily. But my son gets it, so why would someone else get refused help. And why would they give speech when the children can speak clearly, they just cannot read.
The public school district keeps saying ; if you send the child to public, they will receive the help they need. But it does not make sense if my child gets resource daily and is getting the help he needs. The other children live in a different school district but they all go to the same catholic school as my son. They are all either in 3rd or 4th grade.
The catholic school does have a resource teacher but she is only allowed to teach those children who have IEP's and not the children that are a little behind but not enough for a full iep.
You're mistaken in your apparent assumption that speech therapy is only for students who don't speak clearly, it's actually a much larger umbrella of therapy than you realize - it's everything language- and communication-related, not just speech itself. In a school that also employs reading specialists in addition to speech-language pathologists or therapists, dyslexic students would also be on that person's caseload. I'm assuming your school does not have a reading specialist on staff. Reading specialists are generally language arts or special education teachers who have gotten a continued degree in instruction strategies for students with reading disabilities.
Speech-Language Pathology and therapy isn't solely related to the mechanics of speaking, it also is used as a therapy for individuals who have cognitive communication impairments (think inability to draw inferences, inability to problem solve, sequence things, recall, higher order comprehension difficulties, etc.) These are all things that affect the ability to learn to read with fluency and comprehension. Kids with reading and writing problems ultimately suffer difficulties communicating overall.
In any case, dyslexia IS a language impairment - no less than a stutter or aphasia.
As to whether or not a public school would have better services, you'll have to investigate that on your own. Public schools are required to offer (or arrange for the outsourcing of) special services to students with disabilities, private schools can be more limited in what they offer, because they're not bound by the same mandates and regulations.
Our kids were at a Catholic Elementary school and I often subbed in the LD room. What I was told is that the hours allotted for LD to the schools was determined by the number of kids at the school. They got X hours for however many kids. In those X hours they had to see however many kids they could and the ones the needed the most help got it and the rest either got less help or no help. Since the public school in town was larger there was a better chance of qualifying for help. It might be that your son's friend, while needy, doesn't qualify for the help because other kids need it more.
When Special Ed students attend a private school, public monies can be allocated by their home districts for the provision of SPED services. It sounds as though that's what is happening with your son. However dyslexia, on its own, is not one of the legally-recognized disabilities covered under IDEA. Students with that diagnosis can be served under 504 plans, but there is no federal funding to provide that service, so your son's school apparently has opted not to provide them.
I hope that helps.
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