When my DD was 8, the teacher interpreted her issues as lazy and sloppy. Sadly, to some extend, so did we as her parents. Her reading had always scored way above grade level. Her writing, including spelling, conventions of writing, and flow were barely at grade level in 4th grade, having consistently fell from 1st into the 4th grade.
DD scored in the 25th percentile for phonological processing (CTOPP) at school when she was 9. They took this as "no problem here", despite a rapidly spiraling child. A lot of this was that the person making the evaluation knew little about the rest of DD's performance.
We had an outside evaluation. Her diagnosis was based on the differential between her verbal processing (>>99th percentile) and spelling (40th percentile), spotty performance on reading comprehension (varied between grade level to above the level they were able to test), and below level phonological processing.
The school accepted the diagnosis on the spot, and she received Orton Gillingham at the school. That evaluation placed her at very basic levels for letter sounds and phenome segmentation. She evaluated significantly above grade level on everything after 4 months of OG, with spelling now 3+ grade levels above present levels.
Last edited by geofizz; 02/27/13 02:17 PM.
