Not sure I would agree that he has no issues with processing speed, despite average scores. His orthographic processing (orthographic mapping? phonological processing?) and rapid naming (key cognitive processes underlying the acquisition of fluent decoding skills) are also substantially lower than his verbal comprehension, despite being in the average range, which makes sense at they feed into the even lower phonetic decoding score (or is this phonetic coding, in which case it's a phonological processing cluster?). (Did he take the WJIV or III? If these are their actual names, some of your tests/subtests don't match up with the III.) (I know tests are very confusing!)

Anyway, I think it's clear that he would benefit from direct instruction in phonological processing, such as one obtains through OG or Lindamood-Bell.


...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...