Dyslexia Symptoms

The word “dyslexia” means “difficulty with words or language”, and is frequently used to refer to a child or adult who seems much brighter than what his reading and written work suggest. Below are some of the most common dyslexia symptoms:

• One of the most obvious telltale signs is reversals. People with this kind of problem often confuse letters like b and d, either when reading or when writing, or they sometimes read (or write) words like “rat” for “tar,” or “won” for “now.”

• Another sure sign, which needs no confirmation by means of any form of testing, is elisions, that is when a person sometimes reads or writes “cat” when the word is actually “cart.”

• The person who reads very slowly and hesitantly, who reads without fluency, word by word, or who constantly loses his place, thereby leaving out whole chunks or reading the same passage twice, has a reading problem.

• The person may try to sound out the letters of the word, but then be unable to say the correct word. For example, he may sound the letters “c-a-t” but then say “cold.”

• He may read or write the letters of a word in the wrong order, like “left” for “felt,” or the syllables in the wrong order, like “emeny” for “enemy,” or words in the wrong order, like “are there” for “there are.”

• He may spell words as they sound, for example “rite” for “right.”

• He may read with poor comprehension, or it may be that he remembers little of what he reads.

• The person may have a poor and/or slow handwriting. This problem is often referred to as “dysgraphia.”

RESOURCES:

Audiblox: Overcoming Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and other Learning Difficulties
Effective in overcoming dyslexia and other learning difficulties by addressing the underlying shortcomings that interfere with academic performance.

Dyslexia Symptoms & Dyslexia Signs
Resource details the symptoms of dyslexia, including the possible effects of this disorder on math and handwriting.