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[quote=Anonymous]My high IQ kid with ADHD and language processing disorders (likely due to early childhood ear infections) but NOT diagnosed with dyslexia clearly had difficulty similar to what you describe.  He lasted a long time guessing what to read and cleverly masking in school. (One time he copied a poem from a dictionary in the classroom, and the school teacher used it as an example at an IEP team meeting  of how my child couldn't possibly be dyslexic or have a reading disorder because he made this lovely poem.) He could guess short words from context, but the tell was that he would sometimes read contextually appropriate substitute words ("bench" instead of "pew").  And once he began to encounter unfamiliar, multi-syllabic words in 3rd grade, his reading really fell apart.

I believe in retrospect that the ADHD made it difficult for him to intuit the rules of sound/symbol relationships because he didn't really have the same executive function/mental organization that non-ADHD kids had  thus impeding his acquisition in a way that is different than dyslexia.  We pulled him after 3rd grade and sent him to Siena for a more explicit style of instruction in sound/syllable relationships. He learned to decode well but he still doesn't like reading, I think because the ADHD makes him mentally drift away unless the text is interesting. His other language processing issues also make it really hard to briefly summarize in his head what he read, thus making it hard to keep track in longer passages.  [/quote]

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