That’s what I’d like to know. My daughter didn’t talk until she was 5 and then didn’t read until 4th/5th grade.
We just kept on working on speech and reading for years.
Her speech still isn’t great, but it hasn’t hampered her academically. She even got an A in public speaking in college.
I remember teachers wanting to dumb down things like spelling with her. She got mad because even though she wasn’t good at sounding out words, she was excellent at memorizing words. She always got 100% on spelling.
I remember during some testing when she was little, the tester kept on asking her the color of blocks. She couldn’t talk.
I was furious. I told him she knew all her colors, and I proceeded to ask her to hand me the different colored blocks. She got them all correct.
The main reason I didn’t home school was that I did feel like she needed to be away from me to work on her speech. I still don’t know if that was the coerect decision.
I took my first masters in education so that I could home school, then never had children. But I have such deep respect for home schoolers. Every decision you make has pluses and minuses. All you can do is cross your fingers that the pluses outweigh the minuses, and it sounds like YOU DID IT! You thought through how to approach your daughter’s problem and you fought for her. She couldn’t have asked for a better parent. Don’t worry about the past. The future is the only important thing and you’re there 100 percent.