Homeschoolers have no reading dissabilities because they learn to read on their own terms and time table. All children learn to walk on their own terms, talk on their own terms, and when they are slow we don't say "dissabilities." School boxes out children and then labels them when they don't fit being the same as their imposed standards.
Relax, don't label (that does a lot of damage) and trust your son. Take him out of school if you can. If you cannot, just let go of worries and let him come arround on his own. Some terrible readers at nine, end up the best readers at 13 with noe intervention. Let nature do its thing. Pressure only hurts him.
I have a friend who learned to read at 9...and was severely dyslexic....
he went on to go to harvard and stanford and is now CEO of a big company!
My own son has taken longer to learn to read and the school where he was at made him drop 2 grades. He is now in a new school that has much more of a montessori attitude and he is beginning to thrive.
Positive encouragement and self confidence are the key to happy and succesful kids.
