Moderate dyslexia

[TheBrightBear]

My child has just received a diagnosis of moderate dyslexia. We are waiting on the report. Once the report has come through we will discuss with the school.

I'm wondering what specific interventions do schools usually do for moderate dyslexia.

If we pay a private tutor what should we expect them to do.

What resources can i read to inform myself and help the child myself?

Thank you

Presumably the report will make recommendations as to what support would be best for the child in question. Who did the assessment?

Thanks the assessor is v reputable and has a lot of experience. Yes the report will have the recommendations.
I will meet with the school once the report comes through. But I'd just like to be aware of what the reality is....I assume the report's recommendations will be the ideal scenario and most schools will not be able to provide everything. I guess I'd just like to know the reality before I start discussing with the principal. I don't want to be naive about it.

fees paying or state school? Was the assessor an educational psychologist?

Not fee paying
Yes educational psychologist. Very highly regarded and qualified.

Support in school is based on needs, not diagnosis.

Things that may help include the school looking at DS’s placement within the classroom, checking understanding of tasks once whole class instruction has been given, giving 1 task at a time, use of laptop and assistive technology, exam access arrangements, print outs rather than DC copying chunks of writing, nessy programme, toe by toe reading intervention, white board, word bank/sentence starters.

Things that are less likely but some schools manage are things like pre-teaching vocab and other small group interventions.

Things unlikely without an EHCP include 1:1, specialist tuition, scribing.

If DC needs more support than is typically available in schools at a SEN Support level, you should request an EHCNA.

Specialist tutors vary on what they focus on. If you are going down that route, you would need to discuss what you want them to focus on with them.

Thank you so much for all this detail, its so helpful. I really appreciate it.
The needs not diagnosis thing does worry me a bit as there are already a lot of needs in the class!

It shouldn’t worry you. It means the school must make their best endeavours to meet all pupils’ SEN, diagnosis or not.

Thanks so much

If she has been having issues in class they should have already put provision in place. Because there are different types of dyslexia and they also use " falls under a dyslexia diagnosis " which covers other non dyslexia conditions, no child is the same. Youngest has a diagnosis which came with about 25 pages of possible issues, test results and comparisons along with strategies and timings for a retest. She is an excellent reader but has a computer for written work as she has dysgraphia which falls under dyslexia. Some schools do not operate education plans or similar and Send provision in class is virtually invisible.

One child may need a vast range of support and another very little but they have the same diagnosis

Although she was having a lot of issues (fatigue, headaches, very slow at reading and doing her work, trying very hard but unable to finish work in the allotted time), the school didn't notice it and told me they thought it was very unlikely.
So she wasn't receiving any help.
It isn't regarded as a good school for needs overall unfortunately.

All state schools in England should have a graduated response that includes APDR. If they aren’t, they are not following the SENCOP.

Dyslexia and dysgraphia are both SpLDs, but they are not the same diagnosis. Dysgraphia is separate from dyslexia. Although someone can have both. If the EP thought OP’s DS had dysgraphia as well or instead of dyslexia, they would have said so.

Is she on the SEND register or do they regard her as lower ability?