An Integrative Approach to Dyslexia
Signs of Dyslexia...
If a child has three or more of the following warning signs they are at a high risk of having dyslexia and should be screened or tested for it.
Preschool
- Delayed speech
- Mixing up the sounds and syllables in long words
- Constant confusion of left vs. right
- Late establishing a dominant hand
- Difficulty learning to tie shoes
- Trouble learning letters, colors, and days of the week
- Difficulty rhyming
- A close relative who has dyslexia
- Struggle to sequence events
- Word retrieval challenges
Elementary School
History of the above symptoms plus:
- Dysgraphia (slow, non-automatic handwriting that is difficult to read)
- Letter or number reversals continuing past the end of first grade
- Slow, choppy, inaccurate reading aloud
- Poor spelling
- Often cannot remember sight words (they, were, does) or homonyms (their, they’re, and there)
- Difficulty telling time on a clock with hands
- Trouble with math, such as memorizing the multiplication tables
- Dreads going to school
- Trouble learning letters and their sounds
- Trouble hearing individual sounds in words
- Guesses words while reading
- Avoids reading
High School
History of the above symptoms plus:
- Poor written expression
- Unable to master a foreign language
- Difficulty reading printed music
- Poor grades
- Reads slowly
- Writing doesn't reflect oral skills
Adults
Educational history similar to above, plus:
- Slow reader
- May have to read a page 2 or 3 times to understand it
- Poor speller
- Difficulty putting thoughts onto paper
- Still has difficulty with right vs. left
- Finds it hard to concentrate when there are distractions
- Poor self-esteem