What Are The Major Signs Of Dyslexia And Learning Disabilities

Dyslexia and learning disability are very common pronouncing problems. They can be mostly found in kids. Dyslexia is a very common learning disorder. It can affect your child’s brain. Dyslexic children are unable to read and write words whereas learning disability is a neurological disorder. However, both disorders are quite similar and they can be treated properly. Proper dyslexia and Learning Difficulties Assessment help to improve the reading and pronouncing skill of your child. Both Dyslexia and learning disability have some common symptoms. Here we will discuss some major symptoms of Dyslexia and learning disabilities

1. Dyslexia: As we mentioned above, Dyslexia is a learning disorder. Children face many problems from this issue such as learning difficulty, mispronunciation, poor spelling etc. Dyslexia is also known as reading disability. It has 3 common symptoms. They are:

• Difficulty In Rhyming And Pronouncing Words: children sometimes face difficulties in pronouncing words. They may not pronounce a vowel sound. Apart from that, It is very difficult for children with dyslexia to rhyme the words at an initial stage. So, you shouldn’t avoid this problem.
• Inaccurate, Slow Reading Skills: Children with dyslexia often face some difficulties while pronouncing unknown words. Therefore they either guess the words or skip them altogether. They are very slow to read out words and unable to improve their reading skills. Therefore you may notice anxiety, reluctance or hesitation about reading.
• Poor At Spelling Out The Words: It is very common for kids to confuse “d” and “b” or other letters as well. This confusion generally disappears normally but it can last longer in dyslexic children. They can not properly spell out the words. Due to this symptom, they may avoid consonant or vowels.

2. Learning Difficulties: Kids with learning difficulties often mispronounce words. They don’t like to read aloud. Some different types of speech and developmental language disorders are:

• Unable to communicate properly
• Articulation disorders
• Developmental Reading and writing disorder
• Inaccurate and slow laboured reading.
• Weak memory
• Difficulty using and acquiring written or oral language

Some of the common sign of certain disabilities in kids are mentioned above. If you feel that your kid starts facing such disabilities, don’t hesitate to take the necessary step. Kids with learning difficulties, disabilities and Dyslexia always need special care and treatment. Hire a specialist in Melbourne who can prepare diagnostic and screening test of these difficulties including writing, reading, spelling etc.