What is going on? Letter/number reversal (ID only)

[SierraNevada]

The other day Ds was evaluated by COVD for second time after 8 weeks VT. First time Ds was given a test that the assistant botched-administered wrong on one section. It was a paper that had random letters and numbers flipped right or left and you marked the incorrect one. He got 50/50 first time because she first said circle the incorrect one. Then said circle or cross out the correct one after he started. I was confused which it was supposed to be as well so I took his results as meaningless. 8 weeks later same test was given and I watched as he really struggled to know which was which. Does a 7 face left or right? Same with S, 4, and a couple others. How could he not know? He has only ever reversed 2 letters-b and d but recognizes it and fixes the second he does it-and always has. But he still does it at 8 yrs old. He has never reversed other letters or numbers when he writes, even when he was 3-4 yrs old and new to writing. I don't think it's all muscle memory because he doesn't have consistent form. He reads perfect, doesn't transpose numbers when writing down math problems. I see no evidence of this issue in day to day work. He knows left from right, not super fast, but not terrible. So this issue only seems to come up when asked to pick out the incorrect symbol. He had no issue reading different fonts, cursive, etc. What in the world could this be? Eye Doc was stumped too and was going to call some colleagues. I should add he is profoundly gifted so his brain is wired different on a lot of fronts and his giftedness could be masking this strange deficit.

[goldenecho]

Following...want to hear what others say.

[SierraNevada]

Never mind. Just figured it out with son tonight. He misunderstood what we were asking him to do. He thought he was supposed to mentally flip the letter if it was reversed and identify any errors with the way it was formed- like bad handwriting analysis. Haha. He had us all stumped there for awhile. He flew through a workbook we were given to work on it to prove to me he can do the task just fine. He was like, Jeez mom, give better directions next time. Haha.

[OneStepAtATime]

Never mind. Just figured it out with son tonight. He misunderstood what we were asking him to do. He thought he was supposed to mentally flip the letter if it was reversed and identify any errors with the way it was formed- like bad handwriting analysis. Haha. He had us all stumped there for awhile. He flew through a workbook we were given to work on it to prove to me he can do the task just fine. He was like, Jeez mom, give better directions next time. Haha.

LOL.

 

I remember a professor in college issued an exam she had created.  On one particular question myself and another student misunderstood what was being asked of us and our answers were marked wrong.  We were really confused as to why because the question seemed clear to us and we were certain we had written the correct answer.  We approached the professor and made our case.  I remember her facial expression was a bit annoyed at first then she reread the question.  She laughed and said she had not thought about it from that perspective but yes, interpreted the way we had then our answers would absolutely be correct.  She decided to give us credit and apologized for not being more careful in her wording.