This disorder is often misdiagnosed as an attentional issue. The sooner it is recognized and addressed properly, the sooner you will be able to ease the misunderstood struggle with this disorder.
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Dyslexia is a language disability, not a reading disability, so not only does it affect the ability to learn to read, write, and spell by conventional methods, it affects the ability to communicate in more subtle ways. Dyslexics have processing, perceptual, and attention/concentration problems. Dyslexic people think primarily in pictures, not words, and have difficulty learning to work with symbols such as letters or numerals. When they are confused or frustrated as children, they begin to experience distorted perceptions, such as reversals of letters, and develop life-long learning blocks that hamper their progress.
| I. Perception | ___1. Impaired
directionality or poor right/left discrimination. ___2. Poor performance on visual-motor gestalt test for age and intelligence. ___3. Field dependent perception. ___4. Impaired auditory discrimination. ___5. Poor spatial orientation. ___6. Impaired temporal orientation. ___7. Impaired coordination or gross motor skills. ___8. Impaired fine motor skills. ___10. Impaired reproduction of rhythmic patterns. ___11. Speech irregularities. |
| II. Processing | ___12. Impaired
concentration ability. ___13. Short attention span for age. ___14. Slow in finishing work. ___15. Poor ability to organize work. ___16. Variability in performance. ___17. Impaired inhibitory patterns or preservative behaviors. ___18. Low tolerance to frustration. ___19. Impaired activity levels. ___20. Concrete thought patterns. ___21. Possible secondary emotional overlay. |
| III. Intelligence | ___22.
Spotty performance on intelligence test, achievement high in some
areas while low in others, high on some types of tests while low
on others. Depression in intelligence scores. ___23. Mental age on Draw-A-Man test below mental age on individual intelligence tests. |
| IV. Academic | ___24.
Reading disabilities. (Oral reading and/or comprehension) ___25. Spelling disabilities. ___26. Writing disabilities. (Dysgraphia) ___27. Expressive problems. (Dysphasia) ___28. Mathematical and/or calculation disabilities. (Dyscalculia) ___29. Poor performance on group tests that require reading and writing. ___30. Frequent perceptual reversals in reading or writing beyond age and instructional level. ___31. Phonological awareness problems. ___32. Poor retention of learned information. |
| V. Medical and Family Background -- Genetic | ___33.
More susceptible to allergies and addictions. ___34. Family or personal history of allergies, diabetes, alcoholism, arthritis, migraines, learning problems, thyroid disorders. © Dyslexia Research Institute |
