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Dyslexia: Indicators in Adults  
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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

Lister: Andrea
Source: Shaywitz MD, Sally, Overcoming Dyslexia, AA Knopf 2003

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