K student with visual memory issues -

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Anonymous wrote:OP. is he not recognizing the letters themselves or the sounds? I would pursue private testing. Have you ruled out eyesight issues?

Thanks for providing some ideas. We did Pediatric Optometric Evaluation (note - I know there are different opinions on this on DCUM). Our Dr said - go get an OT evaluation as he thought is was more motor planning.
Went and had private OT evaluation - do not have report yet.

With regard to visual memory here are 2 examples of how it will show:
1. There are classmates in his class of 20 students who he can not recall their names. It is across gender and ethnicity that this happens.
2. For letters / sounds if you showed him an F and asked him what letter it was, he would look at the alphabet list and start at A and look through until he came to F. Since it has a fox with it, he will respond Fox, make the "f" sound, and say "F".

Since your kid is I imagine 5 or 6, and having either gross and/or fine motor skills as well, I would consider getting a full educational evaluation if you can't get the school to test. You may want to consider an assessment by a developmental pediatrician; mainly b/c it will more likely to be covered by insurance and they can diagnose motor and language delays.