Hmm. These are surprisingly low numbers for someone with DYS level cognition, except in mathematics reasoning and word attack. So this tells us that, like his twin, his mathematical thinking is exceptionally strong, but his basic skills are not. Calculation skills and fact fluency are in the average range.
In reading, he is ahead of his bro in his phonetic decoding skills, by quite a bit, with word attack more like what one would expect for his cognition. Unfortunately, neither his reading fluency nor his reading comprehension are at the same level, which suggests that, although his phonological processing is probably okay, problems with automaticity are factors for him, too, so that he still has to approach reading decoding as a cognitive exercise, not a second-nature skill, which doesn't leave enough attention and cognition left for the level of comprehension of which he is capable. You had noted that his processing speed was a relative weakness. This is the kind of matching academic profile I was thinking of. Not surprisingly, sentence writing fluency is also relatively weaker than cognition, in the average range. That's a timed fine-motor task, in addition to being a written expression task. Double whammy of general speed and decoding/encoding automaticity/fluency. Is his spelling at the same level in isolation vs in extended writing? Or about the same?
