Dyslexia Association

of Bexley Bromley Greenwich & Lewisham

Helping dyslexic people of all ages by providing information and support

Dyslexia - indicators in children

The child has always seemed to be of at least average intelligence outside the school situation.
She/He has a far greater difficulty than other children in learning to read and write.
Teachers and parents are puzzled by the apparent gap between the child's innate ability. and the lack of ability to read and/or get things down on paper.
Older children may read adequately, but always seem to have more knowledge in their heads than they can commit to paper.
The child has trouble with sequencing - which leads to difficulties with multiplication tables, remembering days of the week, months of the year etc.
The child has a problem with a string of commands, often only remembering the first one or two.
She/He had trouble learning to tell the time, tie shoe laces and riding a bike.
She/He had trouble learning to talk. If a good speaker, then may sometimes stumble with the pronunciation of multi-syllable words.
The child has word finding difficulties, e.g. s/he can describe an object, but cannot remember what that object is called.
She/He reverses letters and numbers for far longer than expected.
There is a family history of difficulties with reading and spelling.

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