My dyslexic son has had a tough time academically throughout primary school, so I am dreading secondary. Often I think of giving up on mainstream altogether for the specialist schools option, but that would involve a total uproot from house, jobs and friends.
The state schools round here have large class sizes and DS is the typical dyslexic, hugely embarrassed and always doing his creative best to avoid written tasks and conceal his problems. At the very end of the year he tends to manage to just reach "expected standard" in literacy, but we make him do a ton of extra work every day to achieve this, which is massively difficult for all of us.
I was wondering whether there is such a thing as a dyslexia schools consultant who can assess your child and offer realistic advice as to where they are academically and whether they are likely to be able to keep up in mainstream secondary. His primary school teachers can't offer any advice about how he might fare. We've not had any sort of professional tutor for him because his dad would only accept one he felt would be better than us (none then available) - and then lockdown struck so none would offer face-to-face tuition.