His developmental therapist is suggesting looking into some sort of pre-reading program, though he’ll need something well off the beaten path from the regular versions of that. His speech therapist seems pretty amazed by this whole thing. We meet with her in the morning for the first time since his recent explosion of surprising achievements. I’ll be very interested to see what she says.

It’s interesting how you ask “where’s the cow?” (from his little farm) and he rarely will reach for it, even after working on this for months. You ask him “where’s the ‘A’?” on a flash card, and he will point with some regularity, or do it completely without prompting. And he’s picked up on that very quickly.

His DT was saying this is how it happens sometimes. Letters, numbers, etc. can be much more concrete to some kids. I don’t know. This is a real mystery to us, though a good one!

@JB – Yep! And it keeps getting better!