blackcat, thank you!
DD7 didn't qualify for an OHI :-(
On her WISC-IV her processing speed was 23rd percentile. Her VCI and PRI were high, so there was a huge gap… but… no one is diagnosing her with a reading disability yet.
She does have a medical dx of ADHD - that is strong and clear and "impressively so" according to her team of UCLA pediatricians. Although female, DD7 has hyperactive/impulsive type and can focus her mind and her ears and is organized, but cannot concentrate her eyes very well. It actually seems like it's a motor issue with keeping her eyes on the page.
This showed up with her Woodcock Johnson test when she kept making simple errors on the math portion, switching addition and subtraction symbols, but solving higher order math problems easily. She also skipped over 10 questions at a time, getting all 10 "wrong," which figured into her score. Ah, me.
I did find this Johns Hopkins research:
The Effects of ADHD (Beyond Decoding Accuracy) on Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Dr. E. Mark Mahone, Ph.D., ABPP
Director of Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/Journals/Winter2011/Mahone
