For some Washington students with special needs, diagnosis is too late, help is too little

When Luckisha Phillips’ son Jayden picked up a pencil in kindergarten, his letters often came out backward and inverted, so illegible that his mother thought something was wrong with his vision.

Handed a set of crayons, Ammerine Dellenbaugh’s bright, chatty son Creede refused to use them to draw or write. Instead, he’d line them up by color, or just scribble.

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/for-some-washington-students-with-special-needs-diagnosis-comes-too-late/