Windward, Gaynor, Gateway seem to be the top choices among people I know who have LD kids.

Has your current school suggested a SN school? Is DC struggling? Just curious. I am dyslexic (and not a "mild" case) and attended mainstream private schools. I did receive tutoring in elementary school and a few special accommodations throughout school (like time and half for tests), but I always had straight As and graduated from a top 20 college in 3 years. My private elementary school initially suggested my parents look at SN schools when I was diagnosed, but my parents advocated for me as they didn't see the need if my grades were still top of my class. If I was struggling though, they would have moved me.

You might google Sarah Birnbaum, who is a schools consultant (schools and other things I think?)

Join the Brooklyn Special Kids group. It's really helpful, tons of answers and info. It's not Brooklyn specific so much, the schools, doctors, etc are all over the city so you will get recommendations outside of Brooklyn.

Even though YBM is generally awful, their Special Needs board is actually quite helpful and the parents there are nice! I'd post there too.

Windward I believe is more for straight dyslexia. Gaynor also does some processing / speech language delay issues. Again - I'm not delighted with nor advocating for Gaynor but im sure you will find plenty of people who will.

Not sure. Also the JCC on the UWS is running virtual parent support groups for parents like us. That's where I found out where to go / apply.

Who did your neuropsychology testing? Did you have it? If yes, the NP if you went to a good one will tell you which schools. If not go to David Salsberg, he does the testing and he's plugged into the schools. Also if not you can't even apply to SN privates without a NP.

The best place to get advice as to where your DC should apply is from your neuropsychologist. Even if the report was inconclusive. If you have a good school-savvy NP then you don't need consulting but you should just apply widely. The main schools for language-based LDs are listed above. The only school I would strongly strongly caution against is Gateway. And if you end up there be incredibly wary of the toxic administration. It's not that it's an elitist school it's that it's a toxic leadership where the 10 percent of the wealthy parents are literally and physically fawned over (as in at school events the wealthiest families have administration staff come up and hug them and only them) and the rest of the parents (including normal, successful UMC families) are treated very poorly if the school is not a perfect fit for their child. This is especially true if your child starts at Gateway anytime before 3rd grade or so as 3rd grade is when the slots become competitive. What happens is in the early years is that they take kids they know will eventually have to be counseled because they need to fill their seats. When they counsel out they do so in a punitive way and in many many documented cases they decided 'suddenly' mid year that the child is 'inappropriately' placed. And the families then have a kid at home for a half year with no private options. If you do not believe this you can speak with the city's top pediatric psychiatrists and psychologists who have had to deal with the Gateway toxic environment. Even the city's so-called #1 neuropsych will privately rage about Gateway's toxicity with parents. So enter at your peril. The other schools are normal.