Oh, and on spelling, her approach to spelling (visual) is entirely consistent with being a whole-word/sight reader who has not achieved automaticity for phonetic decoding/encoding. I suspect that she's just powering through reading and spelling with her exceptional memory. This works for everyday tasks, and may be sufficient to get by on all her life (especially if she slants toward less text-heavy fields, such as STEM), but it is not efficient, and likely means she is always performing under her true verbal capacity when text is involved (interpreting or generating).

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