I am concerned about stealth dyslexia for DS7 because of his writing and spelling even though he is grade levels above in reading. He has dsygraphia, so I am having a hard time understanding what could be the root problem. Is it just dsygraphia or something more, too?
A few questions...
-- DS has terrible spelling, and his teacher was surprised at how poorly he does given his reading level. I have noticed that when he is writing sentences, his spelling is generally much much worse than when he is spelling a single word such as for a search engine or spelling practice. I'm wondering if when he is writing he just doesn't want to slow his brain down enough to spell correctly. Has anyone else seen this? It is almost like he just wants to get the words down as quickly as possible and be done. Plus, because he is dsygraphic, I know that a lot of brain power is being used for the handwriting and perhaps there just isn't as much left over for spelling?
-- DS struggles at times with sounding out unknown words. He knows his phonics sounds, but I think again he just doesn't want to slow down to put it all together. He is great at looking at a word and guessing the pronunciation based on the context around it. Could this be again that he just doesn't want to take the time to slow down and really figure out the word?
-- DS is a perfectionist and has low coping skills for challenges (working on that!), and it seems when he can't do something easily he doesn't even want to try. Could the spelling issues be because it is harder work for him, and he is just giving up?
Also similar to the OP, I'm wondering if this could all just be asynchronous development and at some point it will all just come together for him. He is definitely very asynchronous is many other ways.
