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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t want to hijack this thread but I’m wondering if phonological processing disorder is the same as phonological disorder. My son is now in 8th but was diagnosed with phonological disorder in preschool by an SLP. He did years of speech therapy. We suspected dyslexia when he was in 1st-2nd grade. He couldn’t sound out words and was a very poor speller (still is). School said he didn’t have dyslexia. Later he had a private neuropsych that diagnosed dysgraphia but not dyslexia. We have always assumed he didn’t have dyslexia as a result. But this post has me wondering. [/quote]

Its possible that your child would have been diagnosed with dyslexia if he had the neuropsych when he was younger, before he bootstrapped himself into learning to read well enough that it didn't pop up in the testing. I've come to think of dyslexia as a brain type, but one that has variations between people, rather than a set of fixed weaknesses. I am dyslexic and I am a speed reader, but I was very late to read and didn't learn to spell well enough to be understood until my 30's. But I have the same core weaknesses and core strengths as many dyslexics. You might read one of the books on dyselxia (I like the Dyslexia Empowerment Plan) to see if there are suggestions that might help your kid thrive. One of my favorites that I use with my dyslexic kid is always, always, building on strengths rather than hyperfocusing on improving the weaknesses. Yes, we have to do tutoring. But tutoring is never allowed to get in the way of sports, strange as that sounds, because sport is my child's source of pride and joy. If his joy was theater or computer coding or drawing we'd focus there.[/quote]

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