The school is concerned that my 7 year old is delayed. She is definitely way behind on reading and she is a very bad speller. She's been in school since she was 4, and all the other kids in her class are ahead of her (some by a long shot). She seems frustrated by reading, and will often switch things (bad for dad, as an example) or struggle with very simple words like "the". But in the last few months she's making a lot of progress, so I was surprised by the meeting request at the school.
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They feel like she is not making enough progress and that concepts come and go (she'll understand something on Monday but completely forget it by Wednesday). She sometimes writes words backwards, but sometimes she doesn't. Only once she wrote in mirror image. I have all along been worried about her reading skills. She has been teased a few times by other kids when she struggles to read a simple sign when we are out ("wow, you can't even read that??"). I have brought up reading 3 times now with the school only to be told that kids progress at different rates.
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Other than that, she has an incredible memory. She can recall so many details. She is also a great artist. She's young for her age (I'd say emotionally/socially she's probably about 2 years behind for some reason) and she still has to wear a pull-up to bed every night. She has a lot of energy and can be hyper sometimes (she gets into laughing fits where she almost acts like she's drunk or something at times). But for the most part I'd say she acts pretty much typical.
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I'm at a loss for where to go from here.
