How Do I Know If My Child Has Dyslexia?

Is Your Child Experiencing Any of the Following?

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• 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

• 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

• 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 problems