I hope y'all can give me some suggestions. Princess starting trying to learn to read at age 3. Right away it became apparent there was a problem. After lots and lots of testing and rabbit trails and wrong paths, she was finally diagnosed with Irlen Syndrome shortly before she turned 12. Once we got her filters, she has really taken off with reading. However, her filters haven't solved all the issues.
One of the things we're dealing with right now is spelling. Because she literally could not read at all until 14 months ago, she missed out on all that experience, so learning to spell with reading experience didn't happen. Once we got her lenses, I began to work with her using Phonics Pathways and Reading Pathways and Sequential Spelling. She has come so very far in reading (she's reading Narnia, and Madeline L'Engle and such), but spelling eludes her completely. She can't spell enough to make a grocery list, write a letter, answer basic questions.
Here are her strengths: She's a fast learner, huge vocabulary, loves to be hands-on, loves to read, seems to be gifted with auditory learning.
Her weaknesses: She is still visually unstable; she appears to have a slight auditory processing glitch (she can't hear all the sounds in a words, and sometimes hears them in the wrong order); her visual memory is weak.
She and I were talking about her frustration yesterday. She says the things we have done so far aren't sticking. She doesn't remember how to spell words from looking at them, she doesn't remember how to spell words from hearing them or writing them, and she seems to have no Velcro for phonics and "sounding out" either.
Any suggestions on a curriculum or methods or anything else to help this girl spell? She has penpals, and I have to literally spell every word. It's holding her back.