Common Characteristics found in Dyslexic Students

  Paper Writing Difficulties

• difficulty in organizing papers and thoughts

• difficulty in using cursive script ; usually preferring to print

• avoids writing lengthy sentences / paragraphs

  Spelling

• reversals : friend = freind

• habitually drops or adds letters and word parts when writing

• unable to spell common, everyday words as well as more difficult words

• letters and words often out of sequence

  Reading

• slow reader

• problems with reading comprehension

• reads literally ("There is a fork in the road")

• reads out of sequence and revises order or words

• often mistakes one word for another (for and from / to and of)

• tracking difficulty - skips over words or lines when reading

• avoids reading whenever possible and skips over written directions

  Memory

• difficulty in retention of 'common knowledge' items, such as names of places etc.,

• often loses, misplaces or forgets things

  Speech

• difficulty in pronouncing words

• difficulty getting a point across

• difficulty reading aloud

• hesitancy in speech

  Concentration

• marked difficulty in concentrating with noise or talking in the background

• easily distracted

• difficulty in focusing attention

  Testing

• unable to complete a test in the allotted time although material is well understood

• freezes in exams

• difficulty in narrowing down a multiple choice question to one correct response

• interprets questions and directions differently than teacher intended

  Psychological Barriers

• frustrated by attempts to read, write or spell correctly

• feeling of isolation, fear of not being understood

• feeling constantly behind in work no matter how hard one tries

   

   

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