Symptoms of Dyslexia
In Preschool
- Delayed speech
- Mixing up the sounds & syllables in long words
- Chronic ear infections
- Severe reactions to childhood illnesses
- Constant confusion of left versus right
- Late establishing a dominant hand
- Difficulty learning to tie shoes
- Trouble memorizing their address, phone number, or the alphabet
- Cannot create words that rhyme
- A close relative with dyslexia
In Elementary School
- Dysgraphia (slow, non-automatic handwriting that is difficult to read)
- Letter or number reversals continuing past the end of first grade
- Extreme difficulty learning cursive
- Slow, choppy, inaccurate reading
- guesses based on shape or content
- skips or misreads prepositions (at, to, of)
- ignores suffixes
- cannot sound out unknown words - Extremely poor spelling
- Often cannot remember sight words (i.e. they, were, does)
- Often cannot remember homonyms (i.e. their, they're, there)
- Difficulty telling time on a clock with hands
- Problems in math
- memorizing multiplication tables
- memorizing a sequence of steps
- directionality - Difficulty in finding the correct word
- lots of "whatchamacallit" & "thingies"
- common sayings come out slightly twisted - Extremely messy bedroom, backpack, & desk
- Dreads going to school
- complains of stomachaches or headaches
- may have nightmares about school
In High School
All of the other symptoms plus:
- Limited vocabulary
- Extremely poor written expression
- large discrepancy between verbal skills and written - Unable to master a foreign language
- Difficulty in reading printed music
- Poor grades in many classes
- May drop out of high school
As Adults
- May have to read a page 2 or 3 times to understand it
- Extremely poor spelling
- Difficulty in putting thoughts onto paper
- dreads writing memos or letters - Still has difficulty with right versus left
- Often gets lost, even in a familiar cit
- Sometimes confuses b & d, especially when tired or sick
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