Letter Reversals & Transpositions

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My son has dyslexia and we have the test results to prove it. He is a predominant right-brain thinker.... which is probably obvious. But, he also has amblyoplia in the left eye.... oddly enough the eye that outputs and inputs most directly information to his predominant right brain. Am I correct so far? When you cover up his good eye, he write in "mirror" and doesn't know it. That means that he writes every letter backwards and from left to right instead of from right to left. He does write letters and numbers backwards frequently... in fact, he will write a "four" correctly on one problem then backwards on the next so that sometimes a third of this written work has backwards letters and/or numbers. But, your material suggests that this is not a component of dyslexia? Or is it that number and letter reversals are not necessarily an indication of dyslexia... but someone with dyslexia could do reversals? Also, sometimes he says when doing addition... "Which comes first, the 1 or the 6 in 16?" BTW, I am concerned because his teacher and special ed teacher in his building both think he doesn't have dyslexia (they haven't seen the test results yet) because doing letter reversals is "not a part of dyslexia."