A Quick Overview of Dyslexia
What is Dyslexia?
Signs and symptoms of dyslexia
Signs and symptoms of dyslexia
Despite popular belief, people with dyslexia do not read backwards. Dyslexia is a learning disability that is neurological and genetic in nature. This condition leads to difficulty with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and challenges with reading and writing. Dyslexia is a spectrum, and not all people with dyslexia exhibit the same
Despite popular belief, people with dyslexia do not read backwards. Dyslexia is a learning disability that is neurological and genetic in nature. This condition leads to difficulty with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and challenges with reading and writing. Dyslexia is a spectrum, and not all people with dyslexia exhibit the same strengths and struggles. People with dyslexia usually have normal intelligence and vision. It is estimated that up to 15-20% of people experience dyslexic symptoms.
Severity of the symptoms vary, depending on a number of reasons including (but not limited to) age, early exposure to the alphabet and reading, and genetics. Early intervention (the earlier the better) can give the struggling reader the necessary strategies and practice that lead to fewer obstacles later on!
People who have dyslexia, will struggle in one or more of the following areas:
- Word recognition
- Reading fluency
- Spelling
- Writing
- Reading Comprehension
- Handwriting
- Grammar
- Math
(adapted from https://dyslexiaida.org/dyslexia-basics-2/)
Signs and symptoms of dyslexia
Signs and symptoms of dyslexia
Signs and symptoms of dyslexia
Individuals with dyslexia may also experience difficulty in the following areas:
- Learning to speak
- Learning letters and their sounds
- Organizing written and spoken language
- Memorizing number facts
- Reading quickly enough to comprehend
- Persisting with and comprehending longer reading assignments
- Spelling
- Learning a foreign language
- Correctly doing ma
Individuals with dyslexia may also experience difficulty in the following areas:
- Learning to speak
- Learning letters and their sounds
- Organizing written and spoken language
- Memorizing number facts
- Reading quickly enough to comprehend
- Persisting with and comprehending longer reading assignments
- Spelling
- Learning a foreign language
- Correctly doing math operations
(adapted from https://ldonline.org/article/Dyslexia_Basics)
Dyslexia symptoms by age
Signs and symptoms of dyslexia
Dyslexia symptoms by age
Before School
Signs that a young child may be at risk of dyslexia include:
- Late talking
- Learning new words slowly
- Problems forming words correctly, such as reversing sounds in words or confusing words that sound alike
- Problems remembering or naming letters, numbers and colors
- Difficulty learning nursery rhymes or playing rhyming games
Before School
Signs that a young child may be at risk of dyslexia include:
- Late talking
- Learning new words slowly
- Problems forming words correctly, such as reversing sounds in words or confusing words that sound alike
- Problems remembering or naming letters, numbers and colors
- Difficulty learning nursery rhymes or playing rhyming games
School Age
Once your child is in school, dyslexia signs and symptoms may become more apparent, including:
- Reading well below the expected level for age
- Problems processing and understanding what he or she hears
- Difficulty finding the right word or forming answers to questions
- Problems remembering the sequence of things
- Difficulty seeing (and occasionally hearing) similarities and differences in letters and words
- Inability to sound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word
- Difficulty spelling
- Spending an unusually long time completing tasks that involve reading or writing
- Avoiding activities that involve reading
Teens and Adults
Dyslexia signs in teens and adults are similar to those in children. Some common dyslexia signs and symptoms in teens and adults include:
- 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 operations and word problems
(adapted from: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dyslexia/symptoms-causes/syc-20353552)