In 2000,  again in 2001, again 2002,  2004 and 2005 I was told  don't worry about Samantha your just an "over - protective Mom".  Sam is just slightly behind her peers she will catch up.  Over and over and over again I listened to everyones excuse for why Samantha was getting A's one day and 20"s the next.  I was offered everything from "she needs more of my time" to I give her too much time.  Geeshhh if it wasn't hard enough for me trying to figure out what was wrong now i had the so called professionals confusing me even more. Thankfully I never stopped searching the computers, or  books,  anything that I could get my hands on. At the end of second grade I was allowed to have her tested in school only to find out she had a "specific learning disability" What does that mean I asked?  It means we can give her 1/2 an hour remedial reading twice a week and also speech therapy twice a week.  Great I figured I would pay a tutor to come to my house after-school figuring combining with everything the school offered Sam would catch up in no time.  The educators know what my daughter needs?  They are there to help me and guide Sam on the right path for learning...  After a year of all this "so called extra help".  I was directed to an outside Doctor to test Samantha. Within one hour of meeting Sam and testing her the Dr. made his diagnosis of dyslexia. Actually severe dyslexia.  How bad could this be I figured ?  A few reversals of letters? Handwriting backwards?  I could deal with that. A Doctor once described it to me this way.  Just imagine yourself waking up everyday and everything is written and spoke in chinese. Or you are speaking through a badly connected cell phone. I could not possibly imagine living that way. I remember smiling at my beautiful little girl and wondering what was I going to do?   I prayed and talked till all my friends and family must have thought i was crazy. I think I was so desperate I was border line obsessive.  I could  not stop searching for an answer. I thought about how all the educators spoke to me about being an "over protective Mom,"  and you know what I was glade I was an over protective Mom because if I anything less Sam would not be where she is today......