So, DS just made a liar out of me - he stayed home from school yesterday with a stomach ache and when I came home he had read 20 pages of his Spirit Animals book _on his own_!

I think this is the first time he's done this, so maybe his reading is starting to take off.

Thanks for all the responses above - I can definitely see how reading aloud with expression would lead to looking ahead and then losing your place. So maybe that's all it is.

We're still going to do the visual assessment though - there are other quirky things he does that could be either DCD or visual (bumping into things, not finding items when looking right at them, etcetera).