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I, too, am in a private school...
By vespergirl

...and we tend to have one student per classroom with diagnosed dyslexia. By that I mean they have an actual evaluation with the diagnosis.

Statistically, dyslexia occurs at a much higher rate than one would think.
The parent of my dyslexic student told me recently that 1 out of 5 children have some form of dyslexia. It simply isn't recognized or diagnosed as often as it should be. I suspect I have a second student, and possibly even a third, with some form of language processing difficulty.

I do believe that one reason many children are not identified is for the reason a previous

poster stated -- that many school districts do not diagnose dyslexia. The child-study process, or whatever a sped referral is called in your part of the world, oftentimes will only produce the label of "specific learning disability." My student received this label via his public-school sped evaluation. The diagnosis of dyslexia came from a specialist that the parents paid for.

Maybe that's the reason right there -- schools won't diagnose it, and getting the diagnosis requires time, effort and lots of $$$$ on the part of parents. Private school parents ... well, sometimes they have more resources in the $$$$ department :-).