"a world of epic paradigm shifts" - yes. That is a great way to capture it.

DS7 also had been using whole word patterns rather than decoding. But literally in the past couple weeks, he seems to have jumped on to decoding. We see the impact on reading. Haven't really looked at the impact on writing. If you don't mind sharing - Are you working on assessment? Or letting things develop for now?

I feel like I have whiplash trying to understand what is going on with DS. Just when I think we're getting close to a plan for him, things go off in a totally different direction.