Signs Of Dyslexia In Different Age Groups

Originally posted at The Edvocate by Matthew Lynch / June 27, 2023

Dyslexia is a learning disorder that involves reading difficulty due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words. Many people are generally aware that people with dyslexia have a problem with reading. 

However, they usually don’t know that people with dyslexia have trouble spelling and speaking. The signs of dyslexia don’t just appear while reading, but in other parts of language, as well. Continue reading to find out what are the different signs and symptoms at different ages. 

Signs Of Dyslexia – Preschool

• Mispronouncing words often, for example, saying bed rook instead of red book.
• Showing evident struggle or forgetfulness when identifying familiar objects. For instance, instead of calling a knife a knife, they might call it a sharp thing or the thing you cut stuff with.
• Struggling with rhymes. When they cannot predict the rhyming pattern or cannot remember nursery rhymes or poems that rhyme even after repeatedly listening to them.
• Having difficulty remembering and following steps. 
• Narrating stories that are hard to follow

Signs Of Dyslexia – Grades K-2

• Not able to remember or quickly forgetting letters and their corresponding sounds
• Getting confused between letters that sound or look similar, such as b and p, and b and d, respectively.
• Replacing words when reading from a book, such as saying mom when the text says mother
• Struggling to read familiar words without pictures. For instance, they might not even recognize words like cat or dog without their pictures.

Signs Of Dyslexia – Grades 3-5

• Skipping small words like for and from when reading
• Having trouble pronouncing new words 
• Having trouble recognizing familiar words. They are likely to guess the words that they might usually come across.
• Having poor spelling, even after learning those words. They might spell the same word correctly and incorrectly in the same sentence. 
• Making the same reading or spelling mistake again and again.
• Facing difficulty in answering questions about the story they read. 
• Getting annoyed when reading. Might get visibly irritated when asked to read aloud.

Signs Of Dyslexia – High School Students and Adults 

• Reading slowly
• Skipping small words or parts of longer words when reading aloud 
• Substituting moderately difficult words with commonly known words
• Not being able to remember frequently used abbreviations
• Struggling with understanding idioms and puns
• Taking a very long time completing a reading assignment
• Preferring if you could read the passage and ask questions instead of them reading through it.

Concluding Thoughts

Dyslexia is a prevalent learning difficulty. It is best to understand what the different signs and symptoms of dyslexia are. After all, the quicker you find it out, the quicker you will facilitate and support the person and make learning easier and more fun for them.

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