My dd was diagnosed with dyslexia and dyscalculia when she was at primary school and sadly secondary school did her few favours as she was lumped in middle to bottom sets most of the time as she was labelled as having learning difficulties, so she became disillusioned with learning.
Somehow, Despite this she managed to get sufficient decent GCSEs which allowed her to go to college to do a BTEC in business
She excelled in this course as it was focusing on real life scenarios/ situations ( coupled with working in retail) and from this she was able to go to Uni
She's just completed her Human Resource Management degree ( with placement year) and has been awarded a First class BA Hons degree..
We are all so proud of her achievements and just wanted to offer some positive results to those of you despairing of the situation (her older sister who also has dyslexia/dyscalculia and dyspraxia, graduated MA Hons then completed MSc 3 yrs ago)
We fought so hard for both of them throughout school and all this has paid great dividends ....believe in your children's abilities and keep fighting for them