Hi Alice.
My birth data is 10/10/52, 12:02 PM, Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.
I still have my second grade report card with the comments by the teacher. She left me back, but the principal overrode her and pushed me up to the third grade based on my score on the IQ test. Back then very little was known about dyslexia, other than it caused reading, spelling, and number problems. You tend to reverse letters and numbers. I remember my 8th grade math teacher making fun of me because I read an equation backwards, from right to left. It was OK, as he really liked me, and I was top of the class in spite of my problems. All the school counselors told me was I had to work harder.
I still have to consciously think about my left and right hands, and which is which. I also have a lot of trouble figuring out which direction I am going in. My Dad always used to say, "Ken can get lost in a telephone booth." Ah, telephone booths. Another blast from the past. Like typewriters.
I really didn't learn how to spell a lot of words correctly until college, and I could actually misspell a word when I was copying it from the dictionary. No spell checkers back then, but the counsel that, "You just have to work harder," actually served me well. It was always funny that I would have to look up the word, "dyslexia" when I wanted to use it.
I'm glad your son did so well. Tell me what you see on my chart that you think relates.
Thanks
Ken