We actually homeschool him, and this is the end of our first year. Thankfully so, so that I can make accomodations in his learning right away if need be. He is 10, nearly 11 and we have never had any issues at school behavioral or academic. We pulled him out because he was consistently bored, and reading several chapter books per day while remaining on the honor roll. I had him home a week before realizing something wasn't quite adding up with him. He couldn't remember his basic math facts (his processing speed is sloooowwww), and telling time was extremely difficult. He can't summarize what he's read, but he can tell you every single thing that was in the book. He's amazing at remembering facts! He is also extremely clumsy, so I decided to visit a developmental ped. and she diagnosed him as most likely having Non-Verbal Learning Disorder. She sent us on our way for testing, and they found it to be probable as well. The visual perception was total throwing the tester off though because it was quite high for someone with NLD from what she said.
We just had a visit with our ped. because he's had a ton of facial ticking in the last few months. He said it felt like something was in his eye, and he was rubbing at the corner of it. While we were in the office, the doctor was asking him to look at different things on the wall and he was seeing so much of his world DOUBLE. I was totally shocked because he wasn't saying that at home, but he said it's always been that way. He has convergence issues, and his convergence is way out there around a foot or so. We have an appointment with a ped. opthamologist, as well as an appointment with the UC Berkeley Eye Clinic in a few months (the soonest we could get in). I'm almost thinking that this vision thing could be at the bottom of what we've been seeing with him but I won't know for sure until we have his vision checked. He has totally normal vision, with a slight astygmatism and they've never picked up on this at yearly comprehensive eye exams.
