His profile does actually fit a subtly dyslexic, and not so subtly dysgraphic, one. His weaknesses on the Beery VMI feed right into the relative weaknesses on the WISC-V PSI and the WJIV sentence writing fluency test, as well as the CTOPP rapid naming, which is one of the three key aspects of PP associated with dyslexia (so both fine motor and retrieval efficiency concerns). His relative weakness on the WISC WMI aligns with the CTOPP phonological memory, and is another of the three aspects of PP most associated with dyslexia/dysgraphia. CTOPP phonological awareness is the third of the dyslexia/dysgraphia triumvirate, and is borne out by the relative weaknesses in word-level decoding and reading fluency on the WJ (sentence reading fluency, letter/word ID, word attack).

It's actually kind of a classic dyslexic profile, just with everything much higher, so that the relative weaknesses are near or in the average range. (Except for fine motor.)

For remediation, OG would be the default place to go.

And as far as how his teachers view him, well, they are looking at his performance on 3rd or 4th, maybe 5th grade-level reading. He "should" be reading higher-level material, based on his cognition. The appropriate comparison is between his oral language and his reading/written language. That is, the difference between his speaking/listening vocabulary and his reading vocabulary, or his speaking vocabulary and his writing vocabulary. And he may be reading very fluently for a nine or ten year-old, but that's a far cry from adult-level fluency on adult-level reading material.


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