Oh and my son doesn't have the phonics issue either, which is why I suspect dyslexia but that it never quite sits right with me with my son. He sounds words out just great - as long as his eyes get the sequence right. I can see that when he reads - example: sometimes when he reads and a word ends in LS, he'll start sounding the word out with an "sl" sound meanwhile the word actually begins with say a "B" When I stop him and I say "what sound does B make?" he says, "Uh bbb of course mom" and I'll say "then why are starting that word with the sound of "sl"" and he'll seem confused and be like "Ohhhh I don't know." Then he'll sound it outright. It's like his eyes keep tricking him, yk? He constantly sees lower case "a" as "e" but he knows e sounds like "ehhh" and a sounds like "ahhh" no problem.
Basically, what I see is he can sound out words phonetically really, really well - he is a good decoder (he also spells well as a result). BUT one of his big problems is he is often not "seeing" the letter in the right order/sequence (or seeing the letter right or word if they look too much like each other).
And that is where I have noticed so much improvement since he started VT. He is now getting the sequence right more often!
Last edited by marytheres; 08/26/12 08:44 AM.
