| Editrix, your D's reading issues seem close to what happens with my D. A simple word - cat as an example - she can sound out the letters - Cuh - Ah -T ...but can't get to CAT - she just keeps repeating the separate sounds. She can't seem to blend them. Like your D, she then forgets it 10 seconds later. Also, if she reads CAT, and the next word is BAT, she misses the connection that BAT is CAT with a B. You would think if you can read CAT, you can read BAT. Not in her case.
Our daughters' symptoms do sound amazingly similar--I'd forgotten that cat/bat/hat business, but it comes back to me all too vividly, along with the incredible frustration we all felt. I'm sure there are many different causes for such problems, though. Again, while tutoring helped my daughter master specific skills so that she could read, her school performance was erratic in various ways for another 4 years or so--and I wish we'd gotten a thorough evalulation for her much sooner. For one thing, the evaluation told her that she was actually very bright--which none of her teachers had really considered; they thought she was a nice, slightly slow little girl who had pushy parents but just wasn't interested in schoolwork. Unfortunately, she was discouraged for an awfully long time; and though she's made her peace with schoolwork at this point, I don't think she'll ever approach it with true confidence or enthusiasm.
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