Does anyone have children with dyslexia at a state school......

[Saturn74]

and if so, are you happy with how they are supported in class? I am interested to know, as my children had bad experiences at school, and are now home educated. I have spoken to lots of parents who believe that their children are not getting the appropriate education to which they are entitled, and I wonder how the LEAs are getting away with this over and over again? I would be really interested to hear of a state school that is effectively supporting dyslexic children (or children with specific literacy/numeracy difficulties/differences)and enabling them to shine.

In my experience lots of time, effort and money go into supporting children with behaviour problems at primary school because they can sometimes have such a disruptive effect on a whole class, whereas a child with dyslexia without behaviour problems can suffer in silence without the teacher and class being disrupted. I'm not saying that this is how it should be, nor am I saying that children with behaviour problems shouldn't get support, this is just how it appears to be to me. I think it's quite different in secondary school though where children tend to be set according to ability and children receive more targeted support.

Humpreycushion, second the toe by toe book. My dyslexic boys are at an independent school, but school use that book, and send it home every day for me to do 10 mins with them, and word wasp for my oldest - it really has helped.
5 years behind chronological age is way too much before intervention imo - we've manged to get DS3 up to only 10 months benind chronologicalat the end of Y3 - he was off the bottom of the scale before.
I'm in north yorks too - at the bottom end.

Loshad and others who have used the Toe by Toe book. Is it straightforward for a non-teaching parent (who has a lower IQ than her ds ) to use?
My son is very reluctant to do any out-of-school- homework etc. Do they enjoy it? Is it a problem getting them to do the stuff? Is 10 minutes a day OK?

I've had a look at the website and am pretty impressed but as I am on a very tight budget, I am unwilling to spend £25. I forked out £100-odd for a Nessie computer programme which he refused to play as the games were 'lame' and ''I do too much work at school already mum...don't try and fool me into doing more at home''

He's so bright but really behind in spelling (his reading is OK as he has a phenomenal visual memory) but he cannot cope with spelling out unfamiliar words so is lagging behind now and gets little enjoyment out of independant reading.

We've also just invested in a voice-recognition computer package to help with school work, but sadly, we are finding it doesn't really do what it says on the tin, IFKWIM!

Toe by Toe has really easy instructions, is recommended to be used 5 x 10mins per week and kids seem to love it. And it works. As a teacher and parent of a 9yo dyslexic boy I'd thoroughly recommend it. In fact, it works better at home than when ds was doing it 2 or 3 times a week with different people at school.

Borrow it from a library and use tracing paper to mark where you are at - that's what they did at ds's old school. It actually says in the intro that you don't need to be a teacher - it's aimed at parents as well.

Fmf, it's a real problem. I know my ds needs extra help at home, but I also know that as a dyslexic, school takes up a lot of his energy. I really don't know the answer. If he wasn't happy and achieving at school I'd teach him at home. The system's wrong. I'm in the process of setting up a website after completing a DI course. I really find it hard charging £23 per hour for something the govt should provide. They are children first, not dyslexics.

thaqnks for the reply Swedishmum

I am looking to move to North Yorkshire to be near my parents and to remove my son from a school Down South because the school refuses to accept the recommendations of a private ed psych report. My son is borderline dyslexic and has awful spelling but is very bright and slow. It looks as if you have the same problems there as I have here.