Likely dyslexic son not making progress in school.

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My Yr 2 son has a reading age 2 years below his chronological age and a writing age more than 1.5 years below his CA. He has no problems with maths or his general understanding of the world.

It seems to me, therefore, that he has made very little in progress in literacy since he started school.

I have asked the school to get an educational psychologist to assess him but the school says that they won't do this because even if he gets a diagnosis of dyslexia, the help they give him won't change. The help won't change because the school thinks he is getting the right intervention already.

Is there anyway I can insist in getting an EP report?

Thanks.

My daughters dyslexia difficulties appear to be caused by her auditory processing difficulties and my son's by his phonological speech disorder as he has phonological processing difficulties. Both children display difficulties and need different types of intervention.

Playschool my DS1 was recently dx as having severe dyslexia. He also has AS and from what I have read this is not unusual to have co-morbid conditions. Anyway he is 13, and I fought for what seems like forever to get him dx, as he is extremely bright but nobody seemed to take it seriously until we got to Secondary School. One of the things I did do, was take him to a Behavioural Optometrist. We are lucky to have one local to us. She did a load of tests and that his tracking was affected. He also seems to read a sentence as quite often one enormous word. She px glasses to help with a mild prescription for close up work and coloured overlays. He has been using both now for a month, and with the help of a scribe in class he is now one of the top students in his year.

As for the gluten and cf diets, I never bothered as DS is THE fussiest child alive (feels like that!) and I thought that would be a step too far.

Sally, my ds does that with trying to read a full sentence as a word! He starts to read and just sounds out all the letters to then try to blend them into a word!