Visual and auditory processing

[Tiff23]

Good afternoon

Just received our 15 year old son's Ed Pysch report which says he has slow processing speed, poor comprehension & working memory. He struggles with verbal instructions in class.
Ed pysch says he shows dyslexic characteristics but is not dyslexic.
He has scored well on the phonological awareness.
Just still confused why he makes so many errors in his written work? On Friday as I flicked through his book, I noticed he wrote 'guality' for 'quality' he has confused g & q before in the word earthquake. Occasionally he inverses b & P. Capitals mid sentence.
Could it be a visual processing problem?
Any tips on helping him with processing speed and working memory much appreciated.

[PaediatricOT]

From an auditory processing perspective, does he mishear or confuse sounds? That can have an impact on spelling - if he hears a 'b' as a 'p' then it's logical that he may confuse them in spellings too. If not, it could be linked with visual perceptual difficulties or, more often overlooked, laterality and directionality difficulties - if either of those difficulties are evident in anything else he does (i.e. difficulty with left and right/spatial awareness/directions etc)?

[Tiff23]

Hello

Thank you for the reply. I feel he hears sounds ok. Seems to be a visual problem which tends to only appear in his written work.
He can write m instead of n and his copying isn’t great.
Often writes lowercase for capitals and doesn’t always place p and g correctly. For example tail of g would sit on the line.
Sadly think he has a real problem with processing info.

[PaediatricOT]

If you have the time, there are a couple of great books about such difficulties:

• Smart But Feeling Dumb
  

-The Upside-down kids
Both by Harold Levinson. They go a long way to explaining some of the aetiology that can underly such presentations.