What is Dyslexia

Who is this child?

• A child with average or above average intelligence.
• A child who has the potential but whose academic achievement does not match it.
• A child who has a gap between oral and written skills.
• A child who has an erratic performance and "on" days and "off" days.
• A child who sometimes has more strengths in non- academic areas than the academic areas.

 Characteristics of Dyslexia

• Imperfect Spelling
• Difficulty telling right from left
• Bad handwriting
• Awkward positioning of hand while writing
• Letter and word reversals; confused between ‘b’ and ‘d’ or ‘no’ and ‘on’
• Might see text as jumping around on a page
• Inconsistent spelling of the same word
• Difficulties in maths , logic and time
• Number reversals: mixing up of 59 and 95
• Difficulty in writing down what is heard like messages to be written down.
• Difficulty in saying the months of the year forward fluently
• Slow reader
• Inability to remember names and words, short-term or long- term memory deficiencies.
• Difficulty in following oral instructions involving multiple instructions.