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Hello Sarah
I would think that his phonological awareness is too weak for him to
identify all the sounds in the words. Is his hearing OK (just to check!)
You have said that his own speech has affected the spellings (i.e. 'v'
for 'the) but as this type of error is quite immature, I would think
that he is having difficulties with perceiving sounds. 'slipped' is
difficult as it contains voiced and voiceless plosives and he may have
been unsure of the sequence of sounds. The voiced one at the end of the
word has dominated. Word endings are weak - he has missed several off.
Can he perceive the sound 'n' as he hasn't used any even on fairly
simple words? I think he has learned 'cat' and 'leg' as whole words and
is also using visual memory when writing 'hosptl'. It is difficult to
tell without hearing the boy talk or seeing the actual work but I would
check out his ability to perceive syllables (because he has missed the
unstressed syllable on 'rubbish'), final sounds, vowels and consonant
clusters. Hopefully he is also going off for some assessment of visual
skills - Good Luck

Clare
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I would appreciate any comments on this piece of writing, please!

Boy, 6y 6m, well taught and supported at home.
Average verbal and high-average non-verbal reasoning, good auditory
memory, 
inconsistent phonological awareness (possibly ameliorated through
support), 
lots of letter reversals and other orientation difficulties.  Other
signs of 
possible visual processing difficulties as well, yet to be investigated.

"v    cat w      t   v   b   . a.   sid      o   v    rab       a    bo

p   leg  a.    w     t   v    hosptl"
(the cat went to the bin and slipped on the rubbish and broke his leg
and 
went to the hospital)

The original did not have any spaces, but I have attempted to show the 
correspondence between what he said and what he wrote. The "v" for "the"

reflects his speech.

I am aware that the single letter representation of words is a stage,
but am 
puzzling over the different levels of segmenting/sound representation.

Many thanks, Sarah

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