Could he somehow be unable to hear his own voice in his head and therefore have to say it aloud?
I was wondering the same thing. I would think that the voice inside your head for reading would be the same for math but maybe he's reading without using that inner voice.
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/03/can_you_read_without.htmlGreat news on the DYS scores and it seems like whatever is going on he's found a way to adapt. The self-talk thing could be problem in a typical school environment if the teacher doesn't understand:
http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2007/articles/1179.It is well known that young children often speak out loud while engaged in demanding activity (Flavell et al., 1997; Berk & Landau, 1993; Englert et al., 1991); less understood is that older children and adolescents, and even adults engage in inner speech for similar purposes (John-Steiner, 1992; Tharp & Gallimore, 1988;Vygotsky, 1978). Yet, teachers frequently view self-directed speech as annoying, distracting
classroom behavior. Even when children do not self-talk out loud, they may be seen as
inattentive, lost in their own world and absorbed by their own thought processes. But many
researchers (Diehl, 2005; Flavell et al., 1997; Berk & Landau, 1993; Englert et al., 1991;
Rohrkemper, 1986) believe that if teachers could envision self-talk as active constructivist activity
intrinsic to metacognitive understanding, they could use inner speech as a tool to help students
control and enhance their own cognitive performance.
