If a few or more of these symptoms are consistently experienced, dyslexia is the likely cause. These areas are addressed within the procedures of the Davis Dyslexia Correction® Program which I tailor to the individual.
Self-esteem
- Feels dumb, has poor self-esteem; hides or covers up weaknesses with coping mechanisms.
- Has a high IQ yet does not score high on school tests.
- Easily frustrated and emotional about school, reading or testing.
Balance and Movement
- Clumsy, uncoordinated or poor at ball or team sports; difficulty with motor skills and tasks; motion-sickness.
- Complains of dizziness, nausea, headaches, or stomach aches while reading or studying.
- Poor sense of direction.
- Inability to sit still.
- Difficulty with handwriting.
- Often confuses left/right and over/under.
Time
- ADD/ADHD
- Inability to sit still or maintain attention for long (ADD).
- Has difficulty telling time, being on time, or managing time.
- Inability to learn math.
- Distracted easily.
- Trouble with sequencing (getting things in order) or setting priorities.
Vision
- Reads or writes with additions, omissions, substitutions, repetition, reversals or transpositions of letters, numbers or words.
- Changing or reversing shapes and sequences of letters or numbers.
- Incorrect/inconsistent spelling.
- Omitting or ignoring punctuation and capitalization.
- Seeing letters and numbers move, disappear, grow or shrink.
- Omitting or altering letters, words and lines while reading or writing.
- Learns best through hands-on experience, demonstrations, experimentation, observation and visual aids.
Hearing
- Difficulty putting thoughts into words.
- Speaks in halting phrases.
- Leaves sentences incomplete.
- Stutters under stress.
- Mispronounces long words.
- Transposes phrases, words and syllables when speaking.
- Accused of not listening or being inattentive.
- Hearing sounds louder, softer, nearer or further away than they actually are.
I have had dyslexia all my life. My only symptoms are:
• Leaving out punctuation and letters (ed, ly, s)
• Difficulty remembering sequences of letters in words, which make spelling a challenge
• Slow reading speed.
But NLP has really helped.
Everyone in my family are smart, athletic, mathematical, and inventive. My father, brother, niece, and I all have similar dyslexic symptoms. I think that you are making many generalizations that have more to do with ADD than dyslexia.