Many lovely answers, thank you!
Yes, I could definitely see her sitting there and thinking three or four sentences and then writing down the last one! (Or part of the last one, in many cases.)
I can also see some overthinking -- but I'm on the lookout for that, after DS.
Receptive language issues ... no, she hasn't been evaluated for anything, but if that means what I'm guessing it does, she could have some. She never does anything that she's asked to do (at home) without being told half a dozen times, reminded at every step to stop whatever just distracted her this time and get moving again. Well, "never" is a bit of an exaggeration, but not much. Some things are getting better, but there's still a struggle with many things. Her head is off in the clouds. I assume it's better at school, because she only gets a "color move" once every couple of weeks for the silliness (talked while the teacher was talking, talked in line, touched someone's backpack -- horrors).
She has a lot of trouble with the "what is the main idea of this passage" questions. I suspect it's because she reads it and her mind goes wandering off about every sentence, and by the time she gets to that question, there are lots of other things in her head that weren't actually in the passage, and then (as Zen said) she writes down some little piece of what's going through her brain.
I just don't understand, because I've always been good at tests -- I can pass a test on something I don't even know, just because I know what kind of answers they're looking for, and how to find the important bits. I did a lot of "this is what the question actually says, but this is what they meant, and so even though this would technically be correct, this one is the answer they really want" when I was in school.
ETA: Dude, I have actually seen things mentioning they're working on those words, but it seems like her problems have gotten worse since they started it. Maybe she got confused during that process!
Last edited by Nautigal; 02/19/14 12:11 PM.
