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[quote=Anonymous]I think you need to get to the bottom of why he struggles to comprehend before you invest more time and money.

Does he comprehend audiobooks? Can he tell you what happened, character motivation, plot, etc? Can he listen for extended sessions? If so, and yet he can’t do that with reading with his eyes, it is likely that he has to put so much energy into reading that he loses the ability to also comprehend.

Okay, again, why? It is possible that he knows how to decode well, but that he has never reached the next level of mastery, which is called orthographic mapping. At this point your brain still looks at every letter but automatically recognizes it without decoding. It takes a fraction of the time and energy as decoding. For dyslexics it takes about 200 more repetitions of seeing a word for it to become orthographically mapped than it does for typical readers. And if reading is slow and laborious you read less, so you get less repositions, so you are less likely to reach orthographic mapping. It a viscous cycle.

I’m sure there are other portential causes, but thought I’d mention this one. The treatment would be the same as for a dyslexic person, and you’d want an experienced CALT to remediate.[/quote]

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