Signs of Dyslexia in Primary School Children

Signs of Dyslexia in Primary School Children

  • Personal organisation poor.
  • Poor time keeping and awareness.
  • Difficulty in remembering what day of the week it is, birth date, seasons of the year, month of the year.
  • Difficulty in learning to tell the time.
  • Difficulty remembering anything in sequential order, e.g. days of the week, the alphabet, times tables, foreign languages.
  • Poor reading progress, particularly on look-and-say methods. An inability to blend letters together.
  • Difficulty in establishing syllable division, beginnings and endings of words synthesis and analysis of words.
  • Hesitant and laboured reading, especially when reading aloud, often misses out words or adds extra words or fails to recognise familiar words.
  • Making anagrams of words, e.g. tired, for tried, breaded for bearded.
  • Undetermined hand preference.
  • Confusion between left and right.
  • Poor handwriting with many reversals and badly formed letters.
  • Difficulty in picking out the most important points from a passage.
  • Poor standard of written work in comparison with oral ability.
  • Losing the point of the story being written or read. Messy work with many crossings out, and words repeated several times e.g. wipe, wype, wiep, wipe.
  • Persistent confusion with letters which look similar, particularly b/d/, p/q,n/u,m/w.
  • Confusion with number order, e.g. plus and minus. A word spelt several different ways in one piece of writing. Badly set out written work, inability to stay close to the margin.
  • Seems to dream, does not seem to listen.
  • Easily distracted.
  • Limited understanding of non-verbal communication.
  • Performs unevenly day to day.
  • Excessive tiredness due to the amount of concentration and effort required.