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Dyslexia

Dyslexia Checklist

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The Dyslexic Person Can Experience Difficulties In Many Areas Of Reading, Spelling And Writing, Including:

  1. Rhyming (pat, cat, fat….)
  2. Pronouncing certain words “busgetti” for “spaghetti”
  3. Naming the letters (learning the alphabet)
  4. Associating sound (phonetics) with the symbol-letter(grapheme)
  5. Appropriate sequence if individual letters, and a series of letters which make up a word, in the reading or writing process
    1. Letter reversal: “b” for “d” (bog for dog)
    2. Words reversal: “on” for “no”, “was” for “saw”,”tip” for “pit”
    3. Inversions: “m” for “w”
    4. Transpositions: “felt” for “left”
    5. Substitutions: “house” for “home”
  6. May confuse small words: “at” for “to”, “said” for “and”
  7. Formation of letters
  8. Correctly writing letters of the alphabet in the proper sequence
  9. Finding a word in the dictionary
  10. Difficulty learning new vocabulary words and remembering facts
  11. Distinguishing left from right, east from west
  12. Telling time, days of the week, months of the year
  13. Confusion with math symbols (+, -, x, /, = )
  14. Memorizing multiplication tables (sequential memory)
  15. Memorizing non-phonetic words
  16. Expressing ideas in writing
  17. Finding the right word when talking
  18. Expressing clear ideas verbally
  19. Often uses an awkward pencil grip (fist, thumb hooked over fingers, etc)
  20. Planning, organizing and managing time, materials and tasks
  21. Telling and retelling a story in the correct order

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More specifically there are different dyslexic patterns:

Dysnemkinesia (Motoric Problem)

  1. Abnormal letter and number reversals when writing
  2. Difficulty expressing thoughts in writing
  3. Poor memory of movement
  4. Weak laterality and directionality
  5. About 10% of individuals who have dyslexia
  6. The student writes doy for boy

Dyseidesia (Visual Integration Problem)

  1. Poor recognition ability for whole words
  2. Slow reading (labored) often poor comprehension
  3. Phonetic decoding: he reads “lag” for “laugh” or “ball” for “bell”
  4. Poor spelling phonetic equivalence: “sity” for “city” or “tuphen” for “toughen”
  5. Approximately 30% of all the cases of dyslexia

Dysphonesia (Auditory Integration Problem)

  1. Poor word attack (reading) he reads “house” for “home” often substitutes words: “table” for “desk”
  2. Difficulty with the sequence of the sounds and poor at self-correction he writes: “aminal” for “animal” or “acaly” for “alkali”
  3. Difficulty with the frequency and the duration of the sounds
  4. Approximately 30% of all the cases of dyslexia

Dysphonedeisia (Auditory And Visual)

  1. More severe problems
  2. Approximately 30% of all the cases of dyslexia
  3. Example: “belot” for “delight”

Dysnemkinephonedeisia Or Mixed Types

  1. Very severe problems

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