Check out this article: http://faq.dyslexia.com/cgi-bin/faq_wiki.pl?Federal_Law_Concerning_Dyslexia_Testing

Schools are federally responsible to test for and identify children with dyslexia. You school district is completely in the wrong and should be called out on neglecting to help your child overcome their learning disability.

If your child is indeed dyslexic, there are great <a href="http://www.kildonan.org">schools for dyslexic children </a> in the tri-state area that will help her manage her dyslexia.

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Although in the clinical and academic literature, there may some specific references to specific aspects or details of dyslexia.

However, in the real world, if they did a good job in the description of the Specific Learning Disability and assessed the areas of Reading, there is no practical difference.

In fact, saying "Specific Learning Disability in the academic area of _ " communicates more specific and useful information than just saying "dyslexia."

Again, plenty academics may want to argue the point, but too many practitioners use dyslexia to refer to any reading learning disability.

When this is the case, SLD in Reading (comprehension, decoding, etc) = English and dyslexia = Greek for the same thing.

In the end, the label does not matter so long as they have an IEP that is properly calculated to provide educational benefit in the Least Restrictive Environment.

If the assessment or the IEP are poor, then your problems are bigger than what label they reference.

"Academics and practitioners may both know that tomatoes are fruit, but I trust the practitioners to not put tomatoes in a fruit salad."

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