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Dyslexia: Indicators in Adults
INFORMATIVE 
Tags: Dyslexia, Indicators of Dyslexia, adult, health, symptoms
This list is from Overcoming Dyslexia, by Sally Shaywitz, MD. A noted researcher in neuroscience and a pediatrician, Dr Shaywitz is professor of pediatrics and codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention. She is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She hopes her book will be a “trusted source you can turn to for information, for advice, for guidance and for explanation.
| | Family history |
| | Early language problems in articulation (not comprehension) |
| | Difficulty learning alphabet |
| | Difficulty associating letters and sounds |
| | Trouble sounding out words |
| | Confusion of words that sound alike |
| | Difficulty perceiving “details” in words |
| | Fear of reading aloud |
| | Slow reading |
| | Terrible spelling |
| | Immature pencil grip |
| | Poor handwriting |
| | Diminished self-esteem |
| | Test anxiety |
| | Time factor in performance |
| | Format of test impacts performance |
| | Multiple choice test underestimate knowledge |
| | Grasps main idea better than details |
| | Comprehension is better than rote memory |
| | Good learning capability , even though reading skills are deficient |
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Source:
Shaywitz MD, Sally, Overcoming Dyslexia, AA Knopf 2003
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