Grinity and Violet, thanks for responding...yes, he does seem gifted in la, with reading pretty much the very highest but spelling is very high, but it seems the reason for that is a visual memory of the words. Seeing a word once is all he usually needs to remember it.
He writes well, creative and uses a large and varied vocabulary. I remember last year the teacher was so relieved he wasn't like most of the kids who get a big word in their head and use it 5 times in a story, he will change things up.
Auditory information might as well be braille most of the time, he's got to focus on listening if he's to get any of it; if there's a visual element or if he has to write stuff down he'll do great, but otherwise might really have some 'following directions' problems.
Strengths in math seems to be everything but computation, though he'll do ok in that, and does enjoy it when he's is not out of practice...he enjoys learning about the oddball numbers like infinity and zero, and how they behave, in order to amaze and astound people....anyway more of a concept guy, big on geometry, and we are looking at the life of fred algebra book this summer just for fun, and he's enjoying that and just 'gets' it.
