[quote=Mamabear]So someone who tests wicked smart but can barely read will be diagnosed with dyslexia.
Not necessarily. My dd7 is wicked smart but struggles with reading - and she has other symptoms similar to what you see in people with dyslexia, but she does not have dyslexia - her reading challenge is due to a deficit in associative memory ability. Understanding what is causing the reading challenge is really important in determining how you remediate and accommodate.
The other thing to keep in mind is, in most school districts, the schools will not diagnose dyslexia. If they agree their is a reading challenge that requires individualized instruction, they will qualify a student for an IEP under the category "Specific Learning Disorder - Reading". That doesn't mean the child doesn't have dyslexia, it is just referred to differently in IEP paperwork (at least that's how it works in our school system).
I'll post the list of tests that were a part of my dd's dyslexia screening later this morning. FWIW, my dd10 had convergence insufficiency when she was younger [ she also struggled with learning to read, and had some of the same symptoms that you see in children with dyslexia. She also had a huge discrepancy in IQ testing but it wasn't due to her intellectual abilities, it was due to an inability to see. She went through a vision therapy program and it made a world of difference - within a year she progressed from 2+ years below grade level in reading to above grade level
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