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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a SpEd teacher. They will do an educational evaluation as part of the evaluation process. If the student has dyslexia, this will likely show up as a discrepancy between the oral language and reading scores. I'm speaking to the woodcock Johnson test. 
I don't know if your child would be too young for the discrepancy to appear, my experience is with slightly older students.[/quote]

Thank you.  We have the meeting coming up this week so we can discuss this.  I think I've been a little anxious considering everything going on but given his track record so far, but academic testing certainly seems warranted.  His behavior seems to break down into 2 categories -- first he gets bored and amuses himself by antagonizing other people and second he gets frustrated, especially with anything language related, and blows up.  Part of his frustration seems to be with poor word-finding.  We had a pretty typical incident last night he got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and wanted me to tuck him back in but couldn't think of the words to tell me his blanket was tangled (he was literally crying "I can't think of the word").  From what I read, poor word finding can be associated with ADHD, language disorders, or dyslexia.

He's my second but my first DS has always been on the advanced side with oral language and has average RAN even though he has severe dyslexia and slow processing speed.  So this is new to me and I'm not sure where the range of average is for a 6 1/2 year old.

[quote=Anonymous]Not knowing vowel sounds in kindergarten is not an indication of dyslexia -- it's totally age appropriate. If he didn't know the consonants, I would be concerned.[/quote]

In isolation, no, but that's hardly the only thing going on here.  DS has 2 members of his immediate family with dyslexia which at least doubles his risk of having dyslexia.  He also has about 80% of the indications for pre-readers (such as munging long words, confusion over directionality and time words/concepts, late handedness, can't identify rhymes, ...)  None of these are deterministic, but at some point it's appropriate to rule dyslexia in or out and I would rather do it sooner than later.
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