What the heck is going on here

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My oldest grandson (9) is Aspergers. We cannot figure out how to help him. He

can read although probably not at grade level. The problem is spelling. We had

his list cut down to 4 words. He will do the same words for weeks as he cannot

get them right on paper. His words right now are " on, chop, rap, hop " . I tried

cutting out letters for him to arrange but that does not seem to work. He gets

frustrated and just grabs letters and sticks them together with no thought as to

what they are or what the word is. BUT, he has to write sentences for the words

and when mom suggested a sentence that included his beloved trains, he wrote her

entire sentence with all words spelled right. Many years ago my son, now 30,

had an LD that never had a name. He could spell out loud but when he went to

write it on paper it spelled almost all words wrong. He was very phonetic. ex:

awful=aughel. Now does not spell phonetically that way but speeling out

loud, writing the words, and now rearranging letters isn't working either. We

can't figure out how he learns to spell. We don't even know what to ask for in

the way of testing. He does not test well either so don't know if that would

help. I am at a loss, any thoughts????

Lorelie