Could your child
be struggling
due to Dyslexia?

The most common cause
of reading, writing and spelling problems is Dyslexia, affecting nearly one out of five children.
                           N.I.H. 1994 
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   their shoes, and remembering 
   sequence activities
- Mixing up sounds in words
- Confusion about left and right
- Slow, labored handwriting
- Letter/number reversals 
   (bd,pq,nu,gp, wm, zs, 2s, 69)
- Difficulty rhyming
- Trouble writing full name 
- Difficulty telling time on a
  clock with hands
- Describes rather than names  
  common things
- Common sayings often twisted
- Trouble memorizing spelling 
  words, math facts 
- Often can't remember how to
  read or write common sight
  words (could, were, does...)
- Can't remember the correct 
  homonym (their, there, they're)
- Slow, choppy, inaccurate
  reading: drops words or parts
  of words, substitutes words  
- Discouraged and frustrated, 
   may develop a dread of school
- Strengths in areas such as:  
  creative arts, performing arts,
  mechanics, computers,  
  people skills, athletics,
  intuition, and imagination.