How to spot Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a neurological condition which is usually genetic in nature and or in rare cases happens due to accidents which result in brain injury or brain stroke (acquired dyslexia).

Diagnosis of dyslexia is the first step in providing required assistance to those who are facing difficulties in learning. There are numerous symptoms or traits of dyslexia which can range from very low to extreme in frequency or severity.

In children the earliest symptoms which are observed are as follows: -

• Very early or very late development of motor skills like crawling , walking etc.
• Late development of speech.
• Appear to be bright and highly intelligent but experience difficulties in reading or writing
• Behavioral problems are observed like laziness, carelessness or display of unexpected immaturity.
• Avoiding activities like reading and writing and creating reasons or scenarios to avoid these activities.
• Zoning out at times or seeming lost in their own world.
• Attention deficit ( unable to focus on the topic if its discussed or while reading)
• Experiencing dizziness/ headaches or complaint of aches or pain while reading.
• Unable to understand sequences, spellings, numerals or numbers and verbal cues.
• Experience phantom movement while doing reading or writing.
• Low verbal ability, unable to express themselves and mispronunciation and similar verbal incapability’s.
• Nearly illegitimate handwriting.
• Underdeveloped motor skills, poor in sports , various degrees of uncoordinated movements.
• Poor in higher mathematics, perform average in normal calculations but failure to understand higher mathematics.
• Good in art , Drama, music, story-telling , designing , mechanics etc.
• May have very impressive long term memory.
• Very organized or exactly opposite to it be very unorganized or disorderly.
• Hyperactive or too quite personality.
• Very sensitive to taste, smell, surrounding.

It should be noted that the symptoms vary to degree of severity and combinations of symptom varies from person to person. There are many more symptoms which have been observed and these provide a broad spectrum of difficulties experienced by individuals suffering from dyslexia.

There are many more symptoms in adults which are more or less similar to the children. As they have learnt to cope up with their shortcoming adults deal with their limitations in different ways like completely avoiding certain situations like public speaking, reading maps, accounting etc. They express frustration or become violent in situations which make them uncomfortable.

It should be clearly understood that final diagnosis can only be given by a trained and certified professional. There are many tests and techniques which are used to provide final diagnosis.

Services like ReadOn provide the correct blend of techniques and guidance to help the people suffering from Dyslexia achieving their potential. They help in improving their cognitive abilities and creating neural pathways to deal with this disorder.