Now that we have it I’m feeling reassured. She is where we thought she was as far as peer comparison, though the supervisor told me she was far beyond with her comprehension (and they were testing her at 6th grade level, she said) but we’ll be focusing on decoding skills and sight words because those are two areas she needs work.

They are advising reading therapy but since we’ve not actually formally done any reading program with her and are inconsistent with our Spell to Write & Read (I was waiting for her results before I pushed that further and was just doing reviews of what we had already covered) I’m feeling confident that she does NOT need therapy. She’s within typical range for her age and since she taught herself to read and she’s there, imagine if we actually sit down and get serious about teaching her to read? 🙂 But I wanted to focus on her gross and fine motor skills and speech before I worried about pushing the read. She’s still so young but now that she’s graduated from speech and the reading test says there are no underlying indicators of a reading issue, I’m confident it’s READING TIME! We’ll be sitting down daily for some practice.