Dyslexia assessment whilst he

[morethanpotatoprints]

Several years ago I was diagnosed with dyslexia and whilst my experience of education was different to dd I see similarities.
She is fine at school and well within their average/ slightly above. But I know there is something that limits her abilities in English. Just recently, somebody said they couldn't understand what she was saying which was the reason she was referred to Salt during pre school. This may be coincidence but I have also noticed she struggles with comprehension and its not comparable with her level of reading.
Is this enough to pay for a private assessment as although she is still at school we are considering deregistering shortly. Also such was the severity of my diagnosis the psychologist suggested I had our dc's tested too. School didn't want to know with older dc's and I know dd won't have much luck there either.

wondering why you'd need full dyslexia assessment at this stage, which I understand costs several hundred pounds.

If/when it comes to exams I believe you'd need a recent assessment in order for certain types of Access Arrangements modifications such as extra time, prompt, scribe (though not for use of keyboard) so you might end up paying twice

edyourself.org/articles/exams.php#additionalneeds

also thinking you're mentioning quite minor things as possible evidence of dyslexia, but this could depend on my interpretation of your "somebody said they couldn't understand what she was saying"

hmmm, we had all three of our children tested when they were still in school-paid privately because schools/LA wouldn't have agreed-they couldn't see there was any problem, other than our children not being as bright as we thought they were.
It was the schools inability to then cater for their then diagnosed SEN, which had caused all sorts of problems, that led us to look at alternatives-and we found HE.

Our children had moderate to very severe dyslexia, and although it was useful in helping me understand their issues, I'm not sure I would bother having had them diagnosed, if I had known I was going to home educate at that point.
When you HE you style each child's education for them personally, and run with their strengths. So to some degree the child's diagnosis was a bit irrelevant once we started home educating, so I don't think I'd have spent the money at that time.

I think I'd have just got the FE colleges to test when they started there at 16