Just got Stanford test results

I don’t post here much anymore but this board was instrumental in helping me figure out which way to go when I was in despair. That was Jan 2002 when my son was 6. I posted then that I was afraid that my son would never be able to read let alone read for pleasure the way he wanted even way back then. We’ve “hs’ed” with a tutor, retired teacher who took the Lindamood Bell course in Ca and who has worked with him from 3-4 hours a day pretty much year round. And this spring in the midst of vision therapy he took the Stanford test that the local schools give for placement. We knew he was decoding above grade level ( just finished 2nd) but he tested overall battery at 6.5 and 6.9. And this was averaging the almost zero score he got on sp. We’re doing a thousand most common words sp list and none of the words corresponded or played fair. Our tutour has been doing math U See and the real surprise was he tested at grade 11.5 for word problems. I don’t know where that came from except he has been playing chess for the past almost 3 years and the tutour has concentrated on word problems. We encouraged that even when he couldn’t really count. AND his convergence now tests off the chart after VT which we would have known anyway cause he has begun to read real books with small print. Specifically the Brian Jacques Mossflower ones I’ve been reading to him for 2 years. He was hesitant at first but now for hours on end. And has finished 2 now on 3rd. We are over the moon and I just wanted to thank those who provide this board for all the info and advice I’ve picked up on here over the past two years.
We knew that Jack was intelligent and so avoided all testing except for the one at Lindamood Bell we needed for insurance. We didn’t want the negative results but decided to look for what he could do. However at VT they give a rapid-naming language -based test which they use to screen for dyslexia. His scores were very low-almost not off the ground. After the VT it showed a very slight improvement there but not much. So I would agree the VT did very little to improve that. On the other hand he has been able to remediate much of the processing and do well despite still showing lo on the rapid-naming test. So I’m not sure how much good it does to try to remediate the rapid -naming. And until the VT he didn’t have the stamina to read more than few pages. So to me the conclusion wuld be that tho VT doesn’t help the dyslexic part of the brain, there may be a vision component to reading probs. Our VT separates the 2 and warns parents when they see indicators of language-processing probs. I can vouch that we still have sequencing and memory probs. As in: I can see him shoes on, glasses and lunch in hand ready to go out the door - turn to get my car keys and then get to the tutours and be missing shoes etc…
Anyway, just to say wo expecting results going out to do the best you can can work miracles. For which I’m very grateful.