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[quote=Anonymous]My DS has been going through a series of evaluations and tests for a few years now for something that seems dyslexia-like but isn't exactly dyslexia (or at least isn't what is classically considered dyslexia). At our most recent IEP meeting, the school raised the possibility of a phonological processing disorder and recommended services for that.

Out of all the various language-related issues I've encountered so far (and it's been a few because of the way my DS presents), this feels like it's getting closer: if you ask him, for instance, to break a word down into its component parts, he can't. If you ask him to pull a letter out of a word and say the remainder, he can't do it. ("Take the word 'tree' and remove the 'r' -- what word sound is left?"). He is a terrible speller. Mostly he can't seem to hear or individuate individual letter sounds.

What I've seen online about this is mostly associated with speech, though. DS doesn't have speech problems, but struggles enormously with reading and writing. Does anybody have a child here with this diagnosis? Did getting support for phonological processing disorder help with reading and writing issues, not only speech?

It doesn't feel off, but when I've tried to read more about this online, I am finding all the resources associated with speech therapy, but DS's issues are not speech (everybody agrees his speech is fine). So, I would love to learn more about this in the written word context.

TIA.[/quote]

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