We went to parents evening last night. There is one every term. DS is in year one in a small private school, small class sizes, homely feeling to the place.
The chat was with the form tutor of year one. They are taught by different teachers for different disciplines so his form tutor isn't the teacher who teaches his comprehension, reading or maths. She is a humanities teacher, but she had feedback from all of the other teachers about him. She and another teacher suspect dyslexia. She says that he has lots of the key signs. I think she is right. She will have seen hundreds of kids, and she has family experience of dyslexia. And I agree with her.
The feedback was that he is a delight to teach, well behaved,and always tries his best. But he struggles very much with comprehension, reverses his numbers and letters, and writing. He is very imaginative and a good reader, though nothing spectacular (stage 7 ORT). He doesn't struggle with comprehension when it comes to reading his reading books though, talks with lots of expression, empathy etc. but he struggles with extracting words in text in school and comprehension of that text in the form of questions about it afterwards. He reverses numbers and letters constantly.
The school is a small private school. We chose it because of the very small class sizes and the locality of it. The school does not believe in labelling children, and I have no idea if they would adapt teaching to accommodate DS if he is diagnosed. I suspect not. There are no other children with dyslexia at the school, which is quite academic. The school would mot refer him for a diagnosis, I would have to do that myself, but I understand that I would not be able to do that until he turns 7 in a year's time anyway.
I am so sad for DS as I know that life will be harder for him.
I don't know what to do in terms of school, diagnosis, helping him at home, buying whatever would help him etc. i work three long days a week ( we have a nanny on those days) and DH works extreme hours monday to friday. We have a toddler too.
I don't know what to do.
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