UNDERSTANDING
DYSLEXIA
SYMPTOMS
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Late talking
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Learning new words slowly
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Difficulty learning nursery rhymes
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Difficulty playing rhyming games
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Reading well below the expected level for your child's age
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Problems processing and understanding what he or she hears
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Difficulty comprehending rapid instructions
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Problems remembering the sequence of things
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Difficulty seeing (and occasionally hearing) similarities and differences in letters and words
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Inability to sound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word
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Difficulty spelling
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Trouble learning a foreign language
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Late speaking
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Mispronunciations
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Difficulties with word retrieval
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Needing time to summon an oral response
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Confusing words that sound alike for example saying recession when the individual meant to say reception
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Pausing or hesitating often when speaking
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Using lots of "um's" during speaking lack of glibness
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Using imprecise language for example stuff, things, instead of the proper name of an object
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Underestimation of knowledge if based solely on (glibness) of oral response
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Difficulty reading, including reading aloud
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Trouble understanding jokes or expressions that have a meaning not easily understood from the specific words (idioms), such as "piece of cake" meaning "easy"
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Difficulty with time management
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Difficulty summarizing a story
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Trouble learning a foreign language
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Difficulty memorizing
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Difficulty doing math problems
CLUES TO A DIAGNOSIS OF DYSLEXIA
BEFORE SCHOOL
SCHOOL AGE
TEENS AND ADULTS
Credits to: "The Science of Reading and Dyslexia." Dyslexia. 7 Feb. 2012. Web. 1 Dec. 2015.
"Dyslexia." Dyslexia. 8 Aug. 2014. Web. 24 Oct. 2015.
Vocabulary
Glibness: Performed with a natural, offhand ease: