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[quote=Anonymous]I have a similarly complex kid. High IQ, 99th percentile comprehension, similar in vocabulary. He has always had red flags, though. Shocking spelling. Dysgraphia so extreme that handwriting is not/will never be a practical option for him. Major bilateral coordination and midline issue. We tested him due to the writing, not because of reading problems. (He also has ADHD.)

Over the years, though, the reading scores have become more spread out. He still scores as high as can be scored on comprehension and his strengths, but has done increasingly worse on the Dibels screeners and other parts of the language testing. As a high schooler on language sections, his scores are spread out like yours and don't seem to make sense.

The poster who said, "What's the point" may sound callous but represents an important point of view. A child who scores in the average range *at worst* is probably never going to be diagnosed with an LD no matter how many standard deviations away from the top scores. (To give a sense of how bad things could be, my kid scores under .5 percentile - yes that is a point five! - in fine motor, ability to trace a line, and so on.) So the score range can indeed be much worse!

Moreover, what do you do with a dyslexia diagnosis?? We used to have a really wonderful developmental pediatrician, who was actually very interested  and intrigued (and I think maybe personally had some similarities with the reading and ADHD, not the dysgraphia). He definitely said there is a glitch here, something is off, but for the most part, the child has remediated. He predicted that it would get worse as school work became more complex, which was correct. But he also recommended that we NOT do a targeted dyslexia intervention. He said that it would be just too outrageously slow and frustrating and not worth the effort. I couldn't see it then but given that my child's comprehension remains extremely high, I am glad we invested in other areas for therapy.[/quote]

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