My homeschooled grandson is eight years old and is in the 3rd grade. He also has ADHD. My daughter suspected he may have dyslexia at the end of 2nd grade, and had him tested by a Susan Barton tutor, who confirmed her concerns. That testing doesn't qualify as a clinical evaluation though. Where do we go to have a clinical evaluation like your website describes?

I have a nine year old son that we believe may have a learning disability. We believe it is possibly dyslexia or dyscalculia. We are unable to have an evaluation at this time due to the cost. How can we help him and support him until we can get the diagnosis? I believe once we get an official diagnosis with the areas he is struggling in, we can request accommodations. But until then, I feel clueless about how to help him.

My daughter is nine years old and is in 4th grade. She has always had difficulty reading, spelling, and with memory in general. She took a common dyslexia test as part of the assessment called the Jordan test that she scored very poorly on that warrants us to want to investigate dyslexia as a possible disability. I assume that our next step is to seek a professional evaluation for dyslexia. I’ve looked at the IDA provider directory. There appears to be several providers in our state, but none closer to our home. Are there any reputable providers closer to our area that are not listed on eida.org? If not, is there another area provider that you would recommend for our situation?

I am interested in finding out about testing to determine if a child might be dyslexic. My grandson is seven years old and has been receiving speech services for five years for apraxia and dysarthria. He has slower process speed due to a congenital brain malformation. He is in second grade and seems to be lagging on reading skills in spite of Title 1 reading support. Can you please provide me specific recommendations about how to have him tested?

My son is six years old and has been having reading difficulties and is starting to reverse his letters and numbers. Dyslexia is a concern of mine and the elementary school in which he attends does not seem to want to help me with testing. Is this something that you do at your facility?

My child is in first grade this year and he has begun to have problems reversing his 6s and 9s and 2s and 5s as well as some letters. He has some behavioral and work avoidance problems as well and the school and his mother and I suspect he might have dyslexia. Can you recommend someone who can evaluate him?

My daughter has dyslexia and struggles with reading. I try to help her at home, but it’s a daily battle with her getting frustrated and upset and crying. I don't know what else to do. The school did the CTOPP test and she did very poorly on all sections and they said she was dyslexic. Is there an kind of tutoring or help that you can recommend? Or do you know of any organizational supplies or other resources to help?

My son, age 11, was just diagnosed with severe dyslexia a few months ago after years of struggling in school. He is currently getting ready to enter middle school and I am trying to figure out how to develop good study habits and even how to tackle organizing and setting up a good homework routine for him. Is there information available to show me specifically how to organize and use tools that will help him learn to self advocate for his age group? I am in overwhelmed.

I am currently writing what I hope will be a "parent friendly" article on tests of Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN), why we look at this when evaluating for reading disorders, and current theories on the underlying cognitive processes it actually measures. There are many conflicting theories (as you know). I am particularly unclear as to whether this is always measured as a component of dyslexia testing, and whether people with dyslexia sometimes perform well on measures of phonological processing, but poorly on RAN tasks?

My daughter is spending eight weeks visiting Nicaragua. The first three weeks are in a village with a host family. A child she met in the village “is going to repeat first grade for the third time” according to my daughter. My daughter is majoring in Spanish, but has no training in diagnosing learning disabilities. Is there a very simple set of guidelines I could discuss with her over the phone that will help her generally determine what the child’s disability is? Needless to say the village is extremely poor and so resources to help the child are very limited.