• Dysgraphia (slow, non-automatic handwriting that is difficult to read)
• Letter or number reversals continuing past the end of first grade
• Extreme difficulty learning cursive
• Slow, choppy, inaccurate reading:
  • Guesses based on shape or context
  • Skips or misreads prepositions (at, to, of)
  • Ignores suffixes
  • Can’t sound out unknown words
• Terrible spelling
• Often can’t remember sight words (they, were, does) or homonyms (their, they’re, and there)
• Difficulty telling time with a clock with hands
• Trouble with math
  • Memorizing multiplication tables
  • Memorizing a sequence of steps
  • Directionality
• When speaking, difficulty finding the correct word
  • Lots of “whatyamacallits” and “thingies”
  • Common sayings come out slightly twisted
• Extremely messy bedroom, backpack and desk
• Dreads going to school
  • Complains of stomach aches or headaches
  • May have nightmares about school

Printed with permission from Susan Barton of Bright Solutions for Dyslexia.