I have experienced the homeschool community and am in the middle of the IEP process to place my child who has dyslexia.   It is astounding to me that the policy of the county denies dyslexia aslearning disability.

This is short sighted as children who are given a curriculum appropriate for dyxlexics will have reduced symptoms of ed.

That this is seemingly not known or understood by the professional LD community is simply shocking.

I have been involved in helping my son reach better health and so am familiar with some terminology and find it also shocking that the LD professionals are unaware of these concepts:

RIght Brained

Sensory Integration and Kinesiology

Autism and ED conditions that lead to sensitivity from teasing

Autism and ED children often prefer the company of adults

Sensory diet and sensory enviroments for hypersensitive children

Fluorescent lighting amendments create superior environments for children on autism spectrum

Mind at a Time approach by Mel Levine that holds that if a child receives learning according to his learning style that emotional problems disappear

Chidren who act out or become fussy when given tasks that are difficult are not doing so out of manipu.ativeness but becuase of learning"bruises" being connected.

Understanding that gifted children with LD may have impaired IQ score results

In the past my son has been put into a classroom with a teacher identified as special education trained to me.  After she told me that my son was too  smart for a learning disability, i began to question her abilities.    Research uncovered that she had no LD training whatsover.  She was operating on a conditional license.  

On another occasion I was told that my son had no  memory problems which I was concerned about.   I was chided by the psychologist for being "over concerned" when indeed private testing reevealed that memory must be evaluated in relationship to other scores and he certainly evidenced memory issues.  

II have heard of children who flunk a grade up to four times when they are identified LD.  How is this possible.  

 

These are all things that special education personnel should understand and be conversant about and this simply is not so.

Parents are made to feel unreasonable in their search for approrpiate placement for their child.

How can people who are so unaware of ld issues have the power to diagnose serious conditions like autism?    How can a school division deny the existence of dyslexia as a learning disability.

Please ask at dyslexic schools h9ow children bloom when they begin to succeed as a result of recognizing their strenghts instead of picking them apart like a thanksgiving turkey, weakness by weakness, problem by problem instead of

It is quite simply incomprehensible to me that this system continues.

We parents are told we are part of the "team":   My question was and is, "If I am part of the team, why is it that nothing I ask for ever gets done?"

Evelyn B. Chase