My son fits the VSL to a T. He has poor reading in a sequence, especially the little words that have no pictures (a, the, and, etc) He "sees" the words without all the letters (cuddle would be cddl) He says the vowels don't have any meaning, he can still read the word without them so why are they even there. His letters are incorrect more often than right "b" and "d" especially so he capitalizes them to make sure people understand. He pictures all his math in his head. He does not memorize anything. His teachers, almost of them, said he "thinks outside the box". His handwriting is fine when copying and getting better otherwise. He does have visual tracking problems which could account for all of the above.