Originally Posted by Kriston
Originally Posted by incogneato
I just think if a child can write words, there is a good chance they could read those same words if they wanted to. Unless of course there is some sort of twice exceptionality going on.

Exactly! And that's exactly what I wonder about. But I haven't followed up with a specialist yet for a couple of reasons. 1) I think they'll think I'm crazy to take my DS3 to a doctor because he can't yet read, and 2) just when I was ready to make an appointment (no matter what they thought of me!), he started writing all of a sudden and very well. That said to me that maybe I'm just being a nervous nellie and he's just developing differently.

But I can't get past how weird it seems to me for a kid to write before reading, which is why I wondered how common that is, if it indicates a 2E issue or if it's just another developmental path?

I think it all comes to what you define as a reading. Reading to me is the ability to read words you haven't seen before. You know it's not "just" an ability to memorize lots of words. DS5 could "read" the words he remembered, but to me it wasn't reading. KWIM? When DS3 started sounding out words we didn't really believe him. We thought he had memorized how to sound out a few words. Once he got to the point of "And what does ... mean?" we finally agreed that yes, he may be really reading.

What happens if you write down a word he writes often enough and ask him to read it?

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