thank you bina. I have seen it mentioned in a couple of places about dyslexia can lead to a lower verbal score and also a slower processing speed. That is reassuring processing speed is normally lower.
I doubt the school will care much either to be honest but I have been concerned about dyslexia since starting to try and teach her phonics when she started to learn to read. She just didn't 'get' it in the same way as other children I have helped read and other things like problems with orientation, left and right, has irlen syndrome, forgets what she is supposed to be doing part of the way through doing something (but according to the WISC has exceptional working memory skills) could point towards it too. Paediatrician raised concerns about higher level language processing (I think that was what he called it) but I think it was possible more that we don't use metaphors and idioms so she wasn't really exposed to them. We have started to try and use them more and she is picking them up so I don't think there is a problem there.
