Hi
I had a meeting today with DS7's teachers about our recent OT report (which indicated possible DCD). (Thread is in the 2E section)
I was mentioning to them some observations I had of his reading-aloud:
He avoids doing the daily reading homework - strongly prefers me to read to him
When we read, he loses his place in the text frequently
He skips words often, filling them in with another word - sometimes makes sense in the context and sometimes not
He sometimes skips the endings of words
He improves if I hold a ruler or something under each line, but doesn't want to do this himself
Generally, he can (and wants to) read books at the level of Spirit Animals (~gr. 4), but he'll start to read it on his own and give up after a short time (usually asking me to read to him).
His English teacher said that these things are age-typical (losing your spot, skipping words, word substitution).
His OT suggested that it may be related to his fine-motor weakness (eye muscles being fine-motor muscles).
Does anyone know - are these typical grade 1 issues that he'll grow out of? And therefore the frustration is due to asynchronicity?
Or is it a true deficit we need to work on and accommodate for?
I was considering having him assessed for vision issues to see if vision therapy would help, but if he's age-typical, maybe it's not necessary...
