polarbear--DD just asked me to read some words to her in a certain order, she located them on a list, and then copied them (too complicated to explain why she was doing this). It took her about 10 seconds to write each word and she kept erasing and erasing. I said "Ok, let's try it without copying". She spelled everything correctly (even though the spelling words were 4th grade and she is in 3rd) and her speed was a little faster but not great. She has been bringing home spelling tests with some words completely blank, saying the teacher goes too fast. It just seems to me like an overall processing speed issue that translates to many different tasks...for instance she is slow with math fluency on the computer as well. She can see 7+8 and answer it right away, then it comes up again 3 seconds later and she stares at it like she has no idea what she's looking at. But yet my unofficial testing of her digit span seems good--even going backwards she can repeat about 5 numbers. You'd think she'd get hopelessly lost with something like that. It really doesn't make sense.
Last edited by blackcat; 10/17/13 03:13 PM.
