Is this indicative of dyslexia?

[ReneRusso]

Today I had a meeting with my DDs teacher and she thinks there is a big discrepancy between DD's intelligence compared to her written work. She appears quite bright and has a good level of insight into the meaning of text and good creativity, but if asked to write things down, she does not do nearly as well. Her spelling and sentence construction are poor, apparently. Her reading level is fine. She is 9. Does this point to dyslexia? Her times tables are also fairly poor, and she is incredibly unmotivated when it comes to learning facts off by heart. Would be grateful for any views.

[nooka]

The school said he had to be significantly behind on the expected standard before help would be forthcoming on the academic side (this was from the totally useless SENCO, who suggested to dh that not only ds but also I was autistic on the basis that on a school trip (that I was required to attend, otherwise ds would have been excluded) I was not very sociable. Perhaps she failed to notice that not only I had a broken arm, but my jaw was also wired together!). Basically they just didn't have the cash to give him any one-to-one support. As we didn't actually ask for any help other than his teachers recognise their was a reason why he was struggling and got so angry at times, we were a little surprised to get a rather bolshy letter.

He had a 22% difference between his verbal and perceptual ability scores, which apparently is an unusually wide spread and indicative of specific learning difficulties. But his perceptual ability still came out at above 55% of his peers, so apparently not a problem.

To be honest as we have now been through three education systems he has other difficulties to overcome, and sorting out the reading made a huge difference.

[cornsilk]

'the totally useless SENCO, who suggested to dh that not only ds but also I was autistic on the basis that on a school trip (that I was required to attend, otherwise ds would have been excluded) I was not very sociable.'
Cheeky bitch.

[nooka]

I was so not happy. But SENCOs are sometimes poorly trained (indeed I think they are only required to have fairly minimal training at best), and dh (ex teacher) say that is one of the routes those who perhaps aren't very good teachers go into. Which is perhaps a bit harsh! The teachers and the communication specialist were all great though, and the OTs and physios were lovely. She just seemed to lack insight (bit of a problem if you are a SENCO I would have thought!)

NB I am in a very people facing job, which people tell me I am good at, so I have some reason to think she was talking bollocks!