DS10 has been doing OG at school for a year now, where the money quote in qualification meeting was, "well, he reads at a post-high school level, but he's insecure on the alphabet."
He also has diagnoses of oral motor apraxia, oral dysphasia, disorder of written expression, social pragmatic communication disorder, and ADHD. Connors don't suggest ADHD: the diagnosis is based on observations of his behavior when asked to write. His WM and PSI are both in +2sigma range. He's medicated for ADHD at a very low level, and we've heard zero discussion of any suspected ADHD this year from the school (last year I was treated to 45 minute rants from the teacher).
In the IEP progress report for the goal: "When given a list of dictated words containing previously taught phonetic patters, {DS} will accurately encode them..." The OG teacher (who is brilliant, walks on water, and is the go to reading specialist for 2e kids) writes:
"{DS} has not yet mastered this objective. He is often able to correct his errors when asked after he writes the word. His scores for the grading period {average out to ~75%}. Interestingly when given dictated sentences, DS was able to master this objective {average out to ~98%}."
Uhhh, what? Last year, he was significantly better on spelling individual words (scoring ~60%) than words in a sentence (scoring below 20%). The teacher reports 10 separate instances for each in the 9 week quarter, so he's doing this consistently.
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