This is a curiousity question more then anything else. My freshman son dx’d with CAPD, ADD, inattentive type, and mixed receptive/expressive language disorder seems to have a wide disparity between reading and writing skills. His reading skills are below grade level and his writing skills above grade level. It takes him forever to read taking 55 minutes to read 5 pages. The other day though he wrote a well thought out coheisive two page story in this same time frame. The story was well thought out, flowed well, his sentence and paragraph structure was perfect, his choice of wording very age appropriatte and it was written very neatly(his spelling of course still left alot to be desired). He had no difficulty putting his thoughts down on paper and engaging the reader in the story. On achievement testing there is a 5 year gap between reading ability and writing ability. Is this a common finding with students? I can take this to mean that his difficulty with taking notes during class lectures relates more to his auditory processing difficulties then his ability to write(states he has difficulty keeping up)? I just figured the reading and writing went hand in hand since in the earlier grades both areas were severely behind. He has been successfully remediated for writing(minus spelling) but reading is still a struggle. His oral communication has also improved significantly to give you a better picture of his language abilities.
I met a clinical psychologist from North Florida who could not read. She could write texts! I understand how it could happen because I cannot read shorthand fluently- I can write at about a hundred wpm. The psychologist taped lectures, had friends read the texts on tape - so she had her resources and went successfully to the doctorate level.