Specifically, he can easily read Dolch sight words when he sees them in isolation (he often misreads or skips them when reading sentences), but he is horrible at spelling them. He still has trouble spelling words like ‘was’ and ‘what’ and only starting spelling ‘the’ with confidence a couple of months ago. He also has very poor handwriting and he often asks me things like “How do I make a ‘t’ again?” How can a seven-year-old with an FSIQ over 150 not know how to make a ‘t’ ???
He sounds a lot like a 7 year old with dysgraphia based on what you've mentioned above, and I noticed that in another thread you mentioned his fine motor score on the Beery VMI was very low. This all points to fine-motor dysgraphia - and yes, it is *very* possible for a 7 year old with an FSIQ > 150 to not *remember* how to make a t. My dsygraphic 14 year old *still* has to "remember" how to form each letter when he writes. My ds has also always been a very advanced reader (once he actually started reading), and at a young age could easily read very advanced words. He can't spell worth a darn - and one of the symptoms of dysgraphia, fwiw, is seeing different misspellings of the same word in the same sample of writing.
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