Since you seem pretty knowledgeable on LD’s–how do I know for sure that my child really has one? She was tested by our neuropsych 2 years ago. She was dx at that time with dyslexia, processing delay, and some other dys….disorder. (maybe dyscalcula?).
I pulled my daughter out of public school in 4th grade. She was in Title 1 assist, but they wouldn’t give her an IEP. They tested her and told me she had no LD’s. (before our neuropsych tested). This is her second year at the private school. She was able to go at her own level and no competition. 12 kids in the school. She is in 5th grade and reading 3rd grade level.
Some of her symptoms:
doesn’t know left from right
doesn’t know ANY months of the year
gets some letters turned around—pdb
can not retain math facts–basic–2+3, etc harder for subtraction and zero mulitplication. But yet she is in 5th grade math and doing the work–-just takes her longer because she has to count out on her figers or on paper.
She has also been dx with depression and anxiety.
Holly,
Truly, one great tragedy has been the way in which LD children have been identified over the last several years. The reason many children are not identified by schools is because of the IQ/achievement discrepancy requirement. It is even worse now that the WISC-IV has the working memory and processing speed portions added into the fullscale score. Kids with LD’s so often have working memory and/or processing speed problems. So the IQ score reflects the LD and may be depressed along with the achievement scores rather than showing a discrepancy. So you should trust the neuropsych’s diagnosis. And thankfully, you were able to find your child a more appropriate educational setting which hopefully will help her academically as well as with the anxiety and depression.