Severe auditory dyslexia - where now?

[Sherbert37]

DS2 has been diagnosed privately with severe auditory dyslexia. His school has consistently said he was not 'bad enough' for any special help despite years of asking (now age 10). Where do I go now? Am not hopeful of a positive response from school next week as I know they have no help just waiting to be used.
Have been told he needs 45 mins 3 times a week to make any progress as he has no concept of phonics at all, just remembers the shape of words in context (did not score on the centile at all for spelling). Very bright though otherwise (95th centile for verbal reasoning etc). We are doing Toe by Toe - any other ideas? How much help do your dyslexic children get at school?

TIA

I would recommend a book called 'Why children can't read and what we can do about it.'

I am a salt with a great interest in this field.

Thanks I am at the stage of wanting to read everything about this, so that will be helpful. I should think it would be a fascinating area to study and would help so many children.

who wrote it moondog?

This is an old post but maybe you will see it.

You have 3 options- write to the governer in charge of special needs and make a complaint, write to your LEA and then find a private tutor.

Unfortunately, there are very few specialist teachers in schools, so you will have to fund this out of school if you can. I know because I am a specialist teacher and all my private pupils are those who the school will not/cannot help.

The very most you could hope for would be a 1 hour leson from a peripatetic teacher coming from an LEA dyslexia base, but not many schools offer that.

Contact the BDA or PATOSS for details of tutors near you.