Detecting dyslexia in boys and girls is not always easy, since this disorder can manifest itself in many different ways. Below, you will find the most important signs to pay attention to if you suspect that your son or daughter may have dyslexia and thus consult a professional who can provide you with strategies to deal with it.
See if there are any discrepancies in their expression
A characteristic of most dyslexics, children or adults, is that their way of expressing themselves is much more fluent verbally than in writing. Therefore, we must observe if our son or daughter is able to significantly improve their writing skills if we ask them to tell us the same orally.
Ask your child to show you a copy of the school he is very proud of, for example the ones he does on vacation, and then invite him to tell it to you orally. In this way, you will be able to observe the differences between both executions.
Check for comprehension problems
Another characteristic symptom of dyslexia is that there are problems with reading comprehension. This can cause the child to run away from reading or take too long to read.
To check for comprehension problems, ask your child what his / her favorite character is and search the internet for a game, story, or article about it. Then ask him to read it and explain what he has read.
Typically, a person with dyslexia will ask you to reread the text multiple times to make sure they understand it.
See if you make a lot of misspellings
If the writing of dyslexics has something in common, it is that it presents many spelling errors, omissions of letters (for example at the end of the word), letter inversions (for example, "casrot" for "beaver"), substitutions of letters for others (such as "c" for "s") and the incorrect union or separation of syllables or words.
To make you understand it better, these are mistakes that all of us make when we write very quickly on the computer and then correct them. Well, dyslexics do exactly the same thing, but they don't correct them, because they don't realize it.
Evaluate your calligraphy
Many children with dyslexia have poor graphomotricity, simply because the association between the sounds of words (phonemes) and their graphic representation (grapheme) is not integrated.
To check if your son or daughter has this problem, ask them to leave you a note stuck in the fridge every morning for a week and see if they make mistakes similar to those described in the previous paragraph, in their writing.
Pay attention to your Short Term Memory
Short-term or working memory is one that intervenes when the child reads the statement of a problem and must retain the information to state the data or when he wants to write a story about a topic.
Well, dyslexics have great problems doing these actions.
The most common thing is that when the boy or girl goes to write, they do not keep a conductive child in the story or that they have to divide the sentences of the problem statement in order to extract the data. Just sit down with your son or daughter to do homework and find out if this happens.
As you can see, if your son or daughter has difficulties like the ones I have described, it has a very characteristic profile that will allow you to differentiate dyslexia from what is not.
Please, see if it manifests any of these difficulties and if so, consult the counselor of your educational center or a professional in psychopedagogy right now to help you provide strategies that allow you to deal with this problem, since the academic results What you get will depend a lot on the control he or she has over your dyslexia.
