We are in a similar boat. We had a DD just take the ELLA, and her phonological awareness score came back as a 77 (standard score), in the 6th %ile (which they said was only "low-average" somehow?), but this child also has a number of other skills (processing speed, story memory recall, rapid automatic naming) that she scored very highly on. They did end up giving her the dyslexia diagnosis, but they said that it's a somewhat questionable thing to do because her phonemic skills weren't low enough to warrant it - it's just that they're considerably lower than what you would expect from a kid with her profile. I find it all so confusing!
