- Speaks later than most children.
- Pronunciation problems.
- Slow vocabulary growth, often unable to find the right word.
- Difficulty rhyming words.
- Trouble learning numbers, alphabet, days of the week, colors, and shapes.
- Extremely restless and easily distracted.
- Trouble interacting with peers.
- Difficulty following directions or routines.
- Fine motor skills slow to develop.
Grades K-4
- Slow to learn the connection between letters and sounds.
- Confuses basic words (run, eat, want).
- Makes consistent reading and spelling errors including letter reversals (b/d), inversions (m/w), transpositions (felt/left), and substitutions (house/home).
- Transposes number sequences and confuses arithmetic signs (+, -, x, /, =).
- Slow to remember facts.
- Slow to learn new skills, relies heavily on memorization.
- Impulsive, difficulty planning.
- Unstable pencil grip.
- Trouble learning about time.
- Poor coordination, unaware of physical surroundings, prone to accidents.
Grades 5-8
- Reverses letter sequences (soiled/solid, left/felt).
- Slow to learn prefixes, suffixes, root words, and other spelling strategies.
- Avoids reading aloud.
- Trouble with word problems.
- Difficulty with handwriting.
- Awkward, fist-like, or tight pencil grip.
- Avoids writing assignments.Slow or poor recall of facts.
- Difficulty making friends
- Trouble understanding body language and facial expressions.
High School Students and Adults
- Continues to spell incorrectly, frequently spells the same word differently in a single piece of writing.
- Avoids reading and writing tasks.
- Trouble summarizing.
- Trouble with open-ended questions on tests.
- Weak memory skills.
- Difficulty adjusting to new settings.
- Works slowly.
- Poor grasp of abstract concepts.
- Either pays too little attention to details or focuses on them too much.
- Misreads information.
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