CHARACTERISTICS OF DYSLEXIA

– Delayed Speech

– Difficulty pronouncing words

– Difficulty acquiring vocabulary or using age-appropriate grammar

– Difficulty following directions

– Confusion with before/after, right/left

– Difficulty learning the alphabet, nursery rhymes, or song

– Difficulty understanding concepts and relationships

– Difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems

Reading

– Difficulty learning to read

– Difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words (phonological awareness)

– Difficulty with hearing and manipulating sounds in words (phonemic awareness)

– Difficulty distinguishing different sounds in words (phonological processing)

– Difficulty in learning the sounds of letters (phonics)

– Difficulty remembering names and shapes of letters, or naming letters rapidly

– Transposing the order of letters when reading or spelling

– Misreading or omitting common short words

– Stumbles through longer words

– Poor reading comprehension during oral or silent reading, often because words are not accurately read

Written language

– Difficulty putting ideas on paper

– Many spelling mistakes in daily work

– Difficulty with handwriting and spellings

International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Fact Sheets