I'll add one more note: She was referred for a dyslexia screen in third grade by teacher d/t poor spelling. The screen didn't pick anything up. But due to punctuation and spelling and reading issues, I'm afraid it's there, but she was bright enough to compensate for a third grade screen, but as the material has gotten more difficult and reading dependent (she is in private college prep school), she is slowly circling the drain. Anyone else had a screen not pick it up to later have it dx?
Yes and no again. My dd11 had a psychoeducational eval that was semi-useless in 3rd partially due to the psych insisting that she had nothing wrong with her despite wildly erratic scores within IQ tests and some strange achievement pieces and partially due to teacher feedback that insisted that she was "nothing special" - ouch!
The report at that time said no LD, no ADD, nothing out of the norm. On the other hand, that same set of testing had things like the GORT (Gray's Oral Reading Test) on which she was in the lowest quartile for reading speed and highest for everything else (comprehension, etc.). All discrepancies like that were explained away in the report as pressure from parents, reading at a speed similar to what she heard when teachers read aloud, and so on. She didn't even try to explain IQ scores that ranged from low average to profoundly gifted within subtests. She just said that dd was somewhat gifted, but nothing out of the range of typical.
A year later, I brought her for a consult with another psych who looked at the same set of testing, school achievement test scores like MAPS, feedback from us and a different set of teachers, and diagnosed her with ADD and who felt that she was likely HG-PG. We never knew how to know for sure how to dx dyslexia in a HG+ child although I wish that I had seen that link that someone else posted on your other thread before we did all of these consults and testing!
