Common signs of Dyslexia

Preschool

• Has trouble recognizing whether two words rhyme

• Struggles with taking away the beginning sound from a word

• Struggles with learning new words

• Has trouble recognizing letters and matching them to sounds

 

Grade School

• Has trouble taking away the middle sound from a word or blending several sounds to make a word

• Often doesn't recognize common sight words

• Quickly forgets how to spell words after studying them

• Gets tripped up by word problems in math

• Has vowel confusion

• Difficulty writing a cohesive paragraph

• Often skips over small words when reading aloud

• Reading aloud is choppy and often leaves off suffixes

• Middle School

• Makes many spelling errors

• Frequently has to re-read sentences and passages to have a basic understanding of what he/she just read

• Reads at a lower academic level than when speaking or in conversation

 

High School

• Difficulty reading, including reading aloud

• Slow and labor-intensive reading and writing

• Problems spelling

• Avoiding activities that involve reading

• Mispronouncing names or words, or problems retrieving words

• Trouble understanding jokes or expressions that have a meaning not easily understood from the specific words (idioms), such as "piece of cake" meaning "easy"

• Spending an unusually long time completing tasks that involve reading or writing

• Difficulty summarizing a story

• Trouble learning a foreign language

• Difficulty memorizing

• Difficulty doing math problems