Signs of Dyslexia
Read below to learn more about the many, many signs of Dyslexia.
If you feel your child may have dyslexia, it is important to get help as soon as possible. With instruction, support, and practice you can set your child up for success.
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Understanding Dyslexia
Dyslexia isn’t just b/d letter confusion, and it’s important to know that signs of dyslexia can vary from day to day, minute to minute. There are seven different types of dyslexia. For an idea of some of the challenges that visual dyslexics have, see the video below:
Words Look like What?!?
Signs of Dyslexia
Do you suspect dyslexia?
Most dyslexics show signs of at least 10 of the following…
- Has poor decoding skills
- Lack of phonemic awareness
- Relies HEAVILY on memorization
- Struggles with pencil grip
- Has illegible handwriting
- Had chronic ear infections
- Trouble learning numbers,
alphabet, months, shapes, etc. - Slow to learn a new skill
- Has difficulty rhyming words
- Earns poor grades,
yet is an intelligent student - Easily annoyed/angered/ saddened by school testing
- Prefers oral presentations to essays
- Avoids writing tasks
- Makes letter transpositions (felt/left)
- Unable to find the right word
- Confuses left/right
- Baffled by before/after, up/down
- Has difficulty following directions
- Has low self-esteem
- Uses complex compensation strategies to hide weaknesses
- Appears lazy or unmotivated
- Loss of interest in school
- Unable to master a foreign language
- Reads more slowly than others
- Exhibits poor fluency
- Avoids reading aloud
- Reads inaccurately
- Makes substitutions (house, home)
- Speaks later than most children
- Has slow vocabulary growth
- Has difficulty tracking text
- Text appears double or blurred
- Text goes in and out of focus
- Has difficulty spelling
- Spells same word differently
in same writing sample - Makes letter inversions (m/w)
- Keeps an extremely messy bedroom
- Has messy backpack, desk, locker, etc
- Gets headaches when reading
- Suffers from eye strain when reading
- Has close relative with dyslexia!
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