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 Warning Signs of Dyslexia
Preschool and Elementary
Speech/Vocabulary:
- Delayed speech
- Trouble correctly articulating R's & L's as well as M's & N's
- Stuttering
- Limited vocabulary
- Mixing up sounds in multi-syllabic words (ex: aminal for animal, bisghetti for spaghetti)
Reading &Writing:
- Late establishing a dominant hand
- Dysgraphia; poor handwriting (unusual pencil grip, unusual starting and ending points)
- Letter or number reversals continuing after first grade
- Extreme difficulty learning cursive
- Slow, choppy, inaccurate reading (guesses based on shape or context, skips or misreads prepositions, ignores suffixes, can't sound out unknown words)
- Terrible spelling
Memory:
- Confusion of left versus right, over versus under, or other directionally based words and concepts
- Trouble memorizing address, phone number, or the alphabet
- Often cannot remember sight words or homonyms
Other:
- Chronic ear infections
- Difficulty learning to tie shoes
- Cannot create words that rhyme
- Difficulty telling time on a clock with hands
- Trouble with math (memorizing multiplication tables, memorizing a sequence of steps, directionality)
- Extremely messy bedroom, backpack, and desk
High School
- Limited vocabulary
- Extremely poor written expression
- Unable to learn a foreign language
- Difficult time reading printed music
- Poor grades in many classes despite tremendous effort
Adults
- Slow reader
- May have to read a page 2 or 3 times to understand it, especially a technical piece of writing
- Terrible speller
- Difficulty putting thoughts on to paper (dreads writing memos or letters)
- Still confuses their right and left
- Gets lost easily, even in familiar places
- Sometimes confuses b and d, especially when sick or tired
To learn more, please contact Katie Smith
Phone: 612-845-9095 |
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