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[quote=Anonymous]My rising 3rd grader had a neuropsyche at 6 which identified ADHD and slow processing speed, but no other learning differences.  Her phonological awareness, vocabulary and other language-oriented markers were very high at 6 (end of kindergarten).  The evaluator commented that she did very well with activities like rhyming and replacing sounds in words (e.g. what do you get if you say the word "map" and then replace the 'm' with a 'c'?).  There were no concerns about dyslexia.

She just finished 2nd grade and her I-ready tests show her as on grade level for reading....but my gut tells me that something is just not clicking with reading.  She LOVES stories and listens to relatively audiobooks and podcasts meant for older kids, but when she reads aloud, she skips lots of small words and guesses at anything that's not entirely familiar to her  Her spelling is TERRIBLE and she still often confuses 'b' and 'd.'  She can read....but the amount of guessing she does makes me feel like she's just hiding an underlying problem.  Should I have her re-tested?  The testing is expensive, so I don't want to do it if it's unlikely that a re-test would show something very different from the initial test.  Plus, I feel silly re-testing when the original evaluator specifically indicated that she had no concerns about language-based learning differences and her 2nd grade teacher had no concerns about her reading and hypothesized that the guessing was related to ADHD not a reading disability.

Thoughts?[/quote]

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