Helpful rambling. Really appreciated. I need more guidance based in your thoughts
1) how would I go about further investigating LD? The tester did the CTOPP so it includes a gazillion subtests. Where do I go for a deeper dive and does anyone believe I should do that now or wait the year as tester suggested?
2). The tutoring is suggested for reading and writing. That's all we were told...to help him close gap to aptitude I suppose. As for what I see...his reading did not progress in a typical fashion. He had no trouble learning letters or sounds...all before he was two. He did not make the leap to CVC words. We tried a few BOB books and he resisted. What he did was memorize loads of books with dense text and read those to people. When 4.5 he was given a list of 50 flash cards at preschool. He learned them all in a day at school and started level one readers. He guessed at any word he didn't know and was accurate many times as he used contextual clues. He hung in this phase until kindergarten where he started at level A and ended assessed at level I (instructional M). When he reads now it isn't a joy for him, he does well but still resists decoding if it isn't fluent, sometimes skips lines and words, but seems to have strong comprehension. I notice other struggles with sequencing, motor planning, and yes the pragmatic reasoning you mention...
3). Yes, we are exploring vision as suggested by the tester and have a referral for a developmental optometrist. We have yet to make that appt though so I need to move in that. Trying to figure insurance first.
4) thank you for the advice on balancing remediation as I do not want this to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, nor a self-esteem drain. If we do this it is to allow reading/writing to become easier and more enjoyable.
Thanks again. It feels complicated, but hopefully it will be clearer soon.
