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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It certainly appears like a reading learning disability.[/quote]

I know. I’m trying to determine severity.[/quote]

This sounds like a weird Q, but why are you trying to determine "severity"?

Hoe does it help you to determine "mild" vs "moderate" vs. "severe"?

Even "mild dyslexia" and/or ADHD qualifies for an IEP.

Are you trying to picture how successful your kid will be in school or his/her future life pathway?  The high IQ means that if you treat the dyslexia and ADHD, this kid has a lot of ways to compensate and can find a pathway to success.

Are you trying to
determine how much tutoring? For even mild dyslexia, I would first do a LOT of OG instruction (like 3-4 days a week) and see what the response is to that intervention.

Are you trying to decide if medication is "worth it"?  Again, I would try medication and see the response. IQ and reading achievement is vastly different.  As a mom to a kid with high IQ, ADHD and a reading disorder which benefitted greatly from OG style reading instruction, I can say that dyslexia and ADHD contribute in different ways to reading problems. The dyslexia influences decoding and encoding and the ability (or lack thereof) to reach high fluency and decreased cognitive load in decoding, while the ADHD affects ability to attend to boring text, ability to simplify and organize longer text in a way that allows the student to remember the thread of the reading (requires working memory and executive function), and the ability to recognize social cues in text (social pragmatic language is a common weakness in ADHD).  For my kid, medication really helped with the contribution of the ADHD part affecting reading. I wish I'd tried medication in ES instead of waiting until HS. [/quote]

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