Hi everyone, just wonder if my 6 years old boy in Year2 possibly have some learning difficulties. He turned 6 in July and has always been at the least capable groups (out of 6 groups in the class of 30) with all areas apart from reading. (He is on stage 10 ort). He doesn't focus well, instructions always has to be repeated at least several times before he gets it.
His writing is getting there, I can read and guess 70% of the sentences he wrote, he still have problem writing letters and numbers, they face the wrong way a lot of time and letters like n,r,h look the same and doesn't know half of the capital letters yet. It will take 30mins to write 20 words with the best effort and thats constant reminder of capital letters beginning of sentences and fullstops at the end etc. Spelling is not great but getting better... he normally completely miss out all the important sounds in words like i, n, s etc.
With maths, it is frustrating, he can do sums with his fingers but anything adding or takeaway 10 seems to be a challenge for him unless he uses lego blocks (he can count blocks in 2,5,10s and units). i.e. 25+10=35; 25-10=15; 25-5=20 ;25-20=5 etc. He can't seems to do it without the blocks. He can do them with the number squares but I am not too sure he even sees the pattern on the number square. He knows it's 1-100, I think thats about it. He doesn't recognise they are in lines of 10s and number vertically and horizon are in similar pattern etc.
Is this LD or just a bit slow? Parents evening is next week, should I raise concern?
Many thanks.