{"id":102,"date":"2020-02-22T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.connectivelearning.co.uk\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2020-02-22T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T17:23:49","slug":"signs-and-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/about-dyslexia\/signs-and-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs and Symptoms of Dyslexia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A wide range of difficulties is associated with dyslexia and it would be unusual for a person with dyslexia to exhibit all of them. Symptoms vary from person to person without a common pattern and some of the difficulties may sometimes be observed in a person without dyslexia. It is a cluster of difficulties that might lead one to suspect dyslexia and these might include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Slow reading progress<\/li><li>Erratic or poor spelling<\/li><li>Reversals of letters, words or figures (eg d for b, saw for was, 6 for 9)<\/li><li>Difficulty remembering a long message or carrying out more than one instruction at a time<\/li><li>Poor development of spoken language and mispronunciations<\/li><li>Difficulty keeping up with dictation or copying from the board<\/li><li>Confusion of small words (eg a, the, of, for, and, but)<\/li><li>Difficulty understanding what s\/he has just read<\/li><li>Visual aberrations such as words appearing to squash together or to move about<\/li><li>Untidy or unintelligible handwriting<\/li><li>Very slow handwriting with poor pencil grip<\/li><li>Difficulty with tying shoe laces, buttoning clothes<\/li><li>Confusion of left and right<\/li><li>Poor concentration span for reading and spelling<\/li><li>Unusually clumsy<\/li><li>Word-finding difficulties<\/li><li>Difficulty understanding time and tense<\/li><li>Difficulty learning sequences (eg alphabet, months of the year, days of the week, times tables, own address or birthdate)<\/li><li>Able to read a word, then fail to read it further down the page. Spell a word in different ways within the same piece of work<\/li><li>Poor organisational skills \u2013 timetabling, timekeeping, remembering necessary equipment<\/li><li>Lack of confidence, poor self-esteem<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wide range of difficulties is associated with dyslexia and it would be unusual for a person with dyslexia to exhibit all of them. Symptoms &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectivelearning.co.uk\/kelsall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}