Thank you for your response, I did not get into the entire backstory for the sake of time but I'm happy to expound.
Dd loves to be read to, but reading on her own is problematic. When I say that she can read a word that's isolated versus on a page, I mean that she can look at a word on a flash card, isolate the letters, and with coaching combine the sounds to make the word. She can read beginner books for content, but will jumble the word order or substitute words (like see mail and say mailbox). She brought home a chapter book to read, but to my knowledge could not read it herself. She could possibly read it silently, but she said she chose it to be read aloud at bedtime.
She saw the psychologist primarily for adhd testing, as she is an extremely active/fidgety child and has been in trouble at school for impulse problems (ex: drawing on the table when she should be drawing on paper and saying she can't resist playing with the pencil caddy on the table she sits at). He ran a battery of tests (WISC, WIAT, Beery VMI, Child memory scale, CPT-2) along with snap-IV and bds-2 to rule out any other issues. He said his initial findings are that she writes in mirror image more often than expected for her ability level (which we and her teachers have seen), she has trouble organizing her thoughts and often ran out of room on her paper while writing for him, and that she confused b, p, and d in words and by themselves. Since he saw the dyslexia issues, he wanted extra time to look at test scores before making a decision about adhd. He said she did well on her cpt test for the first portion, and that bright children often compensate on the test so she could have masked her inattention. Once she got 3/4 of the way through the psych said she got tired and started making more errors, then told him she was ready to take a break. He also mentioned that he expects her iq scores to be skewed as a result of the pending adhd and dyslexia diagnoses. We will get his final report on Monday.
