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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my DS was like your DC. Has the school specifically done standardized normed achievement testing in decoding and encoding and have they also done rapid naming testing and other oral language tests for dyslexia or are they basing their diagnosis of "trouble encoding" on observation alone.

My DS's school missed entirely the fact that he actually was not decoding. They thought he was reading fine but just having trouble with spelling.  When we had him privately tested he was diagnosed with reading disorder, dysgraphia & DCD & MERLD. His decoding was significantly discrepant from IQ.  He was smart enough to compensate by reading by whole word recognition and context.  The tells were very subtle and his teacher, with 30 kids in a class, had no clue.

DS needed a dyslexia appropriate reading instruction that explicitly taught sound/symbol relationships. He also needed instruction in syllabification and processing speech sounds. He did not test low enough to be positive for APD but in real life he has trouble discriminating sound against background noise.

I believe ADHD inattentive contributed to the reading disorder and other diagnoses. [/quote]

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