19 Sep Signs of a Reading Learning Disability
Pre School:
- May talk later than most children;
- May have difficulty with rhyming;
- May have difficulty pronouncing words (i.e., busgetti for spaghetti, mawn lower for lawn mower);
- May have poor auditory memory for nursery rhymes and chants;
- May be slow to add new vocabulary words;
- May be unable to recall the right word;
- • May have trouble learning numbers, days of the week, colors, shapes, and how to spell and write his or her name
Kindergarten through Grade 3.
- Fails to understand that words come apart; for example, that snowman can be pulled apart into snow and man and, later on, that the word man can be broken down still further and sounded out as: /m/ /ă/ /n/;
- Has difficulty learning the letter names and their corresponding sounds;
- Has difficulty decoding single words (reading single words in isolation)—lacks a strategy;
- Has difficulty spelling phonetically;
- Reads dysfluently (choppy and labored);
- Relies on context to recognize a word.
Upper Elementary School
- Has a history of reading and spelling difficulties;
- Avoids reading aloud;
- Reads most materials slowly; oral reading is labored, not fluent;
- Avoids reading for pleasure;
- May have an inadequate vocabulary;
- Has difficulty spelling; may resort to using less complicated words in writing that are easier to spell.