Dyslexia in K

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A child with dyslexia may function best in a school that is specifically designed to teach dyslexic children. Instead of hiring extra tutors, advocates, or lawyers, another alternative could be to place your child in an all day non public school that is specifically designed to teach a dyslexic child. Yes, these private schools are expensive but after hiring tutors, advocates, or lawyers, one may actually come out ahead, not to mention saving all the emotional trauma of dealing with advocates and school districts! The child would be taught specific learning strategies incorporated in the curriculum in the classroom all day with other dyslexic children.

A friend of mine whose daughter was severely dyslexic had her daughter in the local public school. While at school, the daughter was pulled out of class for special tutoring an hour each day but an hour a day was not enough for this girl. While the tutoring in school was beneficial, the girl was also missing valuable classroom information therefore, needed a tutor outside of school to help catch up on the work she missed as well as another tutor to help with dyslexic strategies. Since the child still needed tutoring outside of school, the parents felt the school was not adequately serving their child’s academic needs, so the family hired an advocate to fight the school district to include everything they thought the child should have within the school setting. Placing their daughter in an all day school may have been a better solution.

Charles Armstrong School and Stanbridge Academy are private schools on the Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area. Charles Armstrong School is a K - 8 school that specifically targets teaching children with dyslexia while Stanbridge Academy’s student population encompass a variety of learning differences and is a K – 12 school. Chartwell School in Seaside, California is a K – 8 school that accepts children with diverse learning needs. Westmark School in Culver City, California is an extension of Landmark School in Massachusetts. It provides a caring environment for students in K – 12 with learning differences. Kildonan School is a 2 – 12 in Amenia, New York that offers boarding for students that are not local. It specifically targets students with dyslexia. Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, Connecticut is a language-based school that also offers boarding. It is unique in that children 6 years old through 16 years old are in an ungraded, non-competitive setting. The Slingerland site has an entire list of other school in the western United States that use the Slingerland Program.