Do you want to know how to detect dyslexia in children from 3 to 12 years old ? We are talking about a type of disorder related to learning that is found in children who do not have or do not show any physical, psychological or social problems. It is understood as a conflict when decoding or reading words.
Dyslexics often manifest difficulties in reciting the alphabet, to classify sounds, name letters or make simple rhymes. Regarding reading, they are faced with slowness, difficulty in visual monitoring, compression deficit, investments, distortions and substitutions.
Apart from the condition itself, the children with dyslexia are also facing an educational system that is not adapted to their situation because they can not absorb certain content. On the other hand, this disorder is sometimes confused with a clear lack of interest in the studies and, instead of helping with the problem, a pressure is exerted on the child to make a greater effort.
Keys to detect dyslexia
It is key to detect dyslexia and, although the profile is varied, concrete symptoms that give the alarm are externalized.
Symptoms of dyslexia in children of children’s cycle (from 3 to 5 years old)
In this stage we must observe a series of signs that we detail next:
- Late language assimilation
- Low oral comprehension
- Poor vocabulary
- Slowness in oral expression
- Confusion between words whose phonetics are similar
- Problems with coordination and balance
- Reduced short-term memory capacity
- A manual ability superior to linguistics
- Extensive creativity and curiosity
- Problems to recognize your name or write it
- Difficulty to assimilate basic concepts
- Difficulty memorizing simple songs and rhymes
- Conflict when learning to use the clock or mathematical operations
- Problems to learn sequences.
- Tendency to use the pencil incorrectly
- Motor problems, when it comes to dressing and tying shoelaces and buttons
Symptoms of dyslexia in primary school children (6 to 12 years old)
- They continue to have a poor vocabulary and difficulty in speaking
- Lack of concentration
- Low performance in the linguistic subjects
- Confusions with numbers and difficulty learning multiplication and dividing tables
- Difficulty in learning to read
- Problems to carry out sequences in the opposite direction
- Slow and irregular writing
- Low reading compression
- Omission of words during reading
- Problems with the accentuation of words
- They find obstacles to orally expose knowledge
- Disorganization
- Disinterest in the studies
- Absence of trust
- Difficulty in learning foreign languages
- Occasionally, behavioral problems are generated due to the demotivation and frustration that they face
Symptoms of dyslexia in children 12 years and older
- Inability to be precise before oral presentations
- Low self-esteem is maintained and disinterest increases
- Sometimes writing phobia develops before the pressures to which they have been subjected
- The learning of foreign languages ??remains a problem
- Mechanical reading and hesitant
- Low reading compression
- Spelling problems
- Difficulty organizing and writing texts
- Alterations in the syntactic structure
- Learning through written language is a difficulty
