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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Writing and reading are hard, but she has made good progress with tutoring.  She never had trouble with math facts, but word problems and prealgebra are hard. She has been excused from foreign language class per recommendation of slp.  Very concrete.  [b]Appears to have trouble remembering things (e.g., tutor keeps reteaching procedures for math), but neuropsych did not reveal significant memory issues. [/b] No attention issues.
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OP, the testing you did sounds incomplete.  I think your DD does have some undiagnosed LDs,

"A [i]short-term memory disability[/i] can occur with information learned through what one sees – visual short-term memory disability – or with information learned through what one hears – auditory short-term memory disability. Often the two are combined...[b]a teacher may go over a math concept in class until your daughter understands it – she's concentrating on it. Yet when she comes home that night and does her homework, she has completely forgotten how to do the problems[/b].

It's from the link I posted earlier:  http://www.ldonline.org/article/What_Are_Learning_Disabilities%3F[/quote]

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