Dyslexic ds Y9 - how's yours doing??

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My ds has been told he can have 50% extra time or 25% plus a reader at GCSE. AS a teacher myself this seems like loads. Anyone care to share how their children are doing at KS4? He's at a grammar so doing OK anyway, but he's not as excited by education as I'd like him to be

He's Y9 btw

My dyslexic son got 15% extra time at GCSEs and then 25% when he moved into the 6th form of an independent school (we had to pay to get him assessed). He's continued to get 25% extra time at Uni and is just about to finish his Masters in Civil Engineering. He is v likely to get a First. When he was 7 he couldn't spell his own first name and he failed to get into our local grammar school (v upset at the time). At comp he got 8A* 2 As and a B for GCSE and 3 x A for A levels. He had to work v v hard. If your son is intelligent (and he must be to be in a grammar school) he just needs to know that he has to work a lot harder than his peers.

BTW, my son has a well paying job in the field that he studied to start after Graduation. We are v v proud.

My experience is that by Y9 the only sign of their dyslexia is extra time in exams. The help they had in previous years has been successful and given them coping strategies.

But there's the lack of confidence issue too. Not sure that ever really goes away (not in DS's case anyway).

DS is in Yr9 and has been going to a special school for dyslexia since Yr7, funded by the LEA. His confidence has improved immensely and his academic levels have come on in leaps and bounds. His reading age was five years behind when he started and now it is age appropriate.

DS will get 25% extra time in exams, use of a laptop/scribe (depending on subject) and will sit the exam in a separate room by himself. He continues to get quite a lot of input from the dyslexia tutor, SALT and OT, along with small classes.