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[quote=Anonymous]My rising 2nd grader struggles with reading and is very distracted, so we had her evaluated for LDs and ADHD. Came back positive for ADHD and negative for LDs.  IQ was 98th percentile.  The doctor said the ADHD might be causing the reading troubles—e.g. spacing out during reading instruction, intimidated by long passages, etc.  But this seems strange to me.

With a pretty high IQ, why is reading so hard?  She doesn’t reverse letters, she’s great at rhyming, she has an excellent vocabulary and she loves when we read to her….but when she reads, she is very slow, has trouble sounding things out, guesses incorrectly a ton, and often gets to the end of a sentence and has no idea what it was about.  She absolutely hates reading…but loves audio books, podcasts and having us read to her.  She also loves math, but hates word problems or reading instructions for math problems.

Anyone have any ideas of what’s going on?  Do you have a kid with a similar issue?  What helped?  We are going to do an OG reading tutor, but I’m still curious as to why reading is so hard for her.  [/quote]

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