Just back from a (fairly lengthy) meeting at school with SENCO and CT. SENCO has spent the afternoon assessing dd2.
She is 7yrs 10months (Y3) has a history of severe language delay and behavioural/social communication problems, non-literal language on 1st centile - assessed by excellent private SaLT - and is awaiting assessment for ASD.
School wise her decoding skills are excellent but her reading comprehension has stalled and she now hates reading BUT is now having quite a bit of intervention (yey!) to help her move on. So far so good..... (intevention-wise).
So my question is: SENCO assessed her processing speed (suspected to be slow, dd is über-easily distracted and needs extra time to process instructions and gets her knickers in a twist keeping up in class spelling tests, although her spelling is good). At home she will go ballistic if someone interrupts her thoughts or her talking. She often needs re-focussing back to a task and does not keep up with group reading sessions, because of ?processing ?attention ?distractibility.
This assessment today was a timed exercise in naming things seen or read from a piece of paper. There were two types of naming tested. One was the naming of streams (rows) of numbers. The other was naming pictures of house/hat/ball in different combinations in rows.
The outcome of assessment was: numbers was excellent and speedy. Pictures was very slow and almost at the level qualifying for extra time in SATs. It was a massive discrepancy.
Trying to get the bottom of the reading issues (and of dd2 in general) does anyone know what this discrepancy might reveal? SENCO is going to speak to the Ed Psych when she comes next week and will report back.
Does anyone here have any experience of this and what it might indicate? Is it a specific phonological processing problem? In which case why is she so good at decoding words?
Clutching at straws, in the dark as usual........ be really really grateful for some help or input, similar experiences or just Honks would do
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Handywoman · 29/01/2013 16:58
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