10 Early Signs of Dyslexia 🙋

The early signs of dyslexia are not obvious. They are little things that parents sometimes notice. Most of the time these symptoms of dyslexia get passed off as nothing. And usually, they are. But when parents notice several of them together then it's a cue to take notice. Maybe dig in a little deeper and possibly even get a dyslexia test. This video goes over the common signs that appear. It also gives some help for parents on how to help their children strengthen in these areas.

Dyslexia is a reading disorder but different people with dyslexia struggle differently. It affects reading skills, spelling words, reading quickly, pronouncing words when reading aloud, and even writing words. It may be due to decoding (sounding out words) difficulties. Or a difficulty connecting a sound to the letter that represents it. What is it like to have dyslexia? Reading will be difficult and they may have trouble understanding what they have read. They often have trouble processing information when reading. It's not always, and usually isn't seeing print upside down or reversing letters. Dyslexics can be intellectually gifted or have normal intelligence.

Dyslexics can also have difficulty with numbers or developmental language disorders and it's common to also have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Other signs are difficulty rhyming, pronunciation problems, poor reading accuracy, skipping words and difficulty with fine motor skills. They easily confuse letters such as "b" and "d". And can get the letters out of order in words.

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Timecodes

00:00 Intro
01:00 Lack of crawling
02:35 Difficulty learning to tie shoes
03:02 Late talking
03:40 Confusing left and right
04:35 Difficulty Rhyming
05:35 Difficulty learning the alphabet
06:20 Speech Difficulties
06:50 Difficulty writing name
07:15 Fine motor skills
07:30 Exceptional creativity
08:40 Conclusion

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[darinwalker]

there wasn't much known about dyslexia long ago when I was a child, but looking back there were so many clues to my struggles. however with time and a lot of effort I earned my PhD! For anyone out there go with your strengths, cover your weaknesses and keep going.

[amberjulia]

Wish I would have watched this video 8 years ago when my daughter was much younger. She’s 12 and still gets confused on left vs right…still doesn’t know how to properly tie her shoes (she learned a “hack” way to do it a couple of years ago but it’s still a struggle)…didn’t learn how to spell or write her name until age 9 (and she still can’t spell her middle name)…and the alphabet took FOREVER to click with her - it wasn’t until about age 8/9 that she finally learned which sounds go with which letters and could name the letters.

But I never realized these were signs of dyslexia! The one thing that finally tipped me off that she might be dyslexic was the fact that she was (and still does) constantly write her numbers and letters backwards and still (at age 12) can’t properly spell very basic words like “and” or “still” or “because”.

But she is extremely intelligent in other ways and VERY creative and a total social butterfly. She’s in acting and art. People have commissioned artwork from her and she always gets the lead roles in the plays she auditions for. Her IQ is actually slightly higher than mine and mine is slightly above average and I always made straight A’s in school and NEVER struggled with reading or writing. It’s truly incredible how the brain works!

[maurors-jp]

You just described my son... 😂
I have dyslexia, and I know that it is pretty common that this problem could affect my kids. But I was growing up in an environment where I had only Portuguese around me. But my son is in a trilingual environment. We are using Portuguese at home, he is using Japanese with his friends, and he is in a kindergarten where 50~70% of the time, they use English. So, initially, I thought it could be because of the exposure to 3 languages (the first 3 years were only Portuguese and Japanese, last year, he started learning English). However, when he began to learn numbers, I could see that he had difficulty recognizing the characters. Took him almost 1 month to count from 1 to 5, and until now, he has had trouble counting or identifying numbers in labels and books. Other things like remembering people's names, always mistaking M and W, 3 and E, 2 and S... and other stuff like making wrong pronunciations after trying to fix it for weeks (he can't say Harry Poter, he always says helicopter 🤣).
But one interesting point is how good he is at building things with Lego and how social he is. He is 4 years old, and he can get Lego for 12+ and make that following the instructions w/o problems (sometimes 2 hours in a row!). And he is a natural politician (he walks in the street saying hi to everybody, calls all the kids in the park to play together, is highly empathetic, etc...).
So, could you talk about bilingual/trilingual dyslexic kids? I guess it will be an interesting video...

[semolinasemolina]

Regarding cleaning help / ❤❤❤❤ - I also have neurodiversity - and 😂❤ lol co parenting with a narcissist 😂❤ and after the "events" of the "relationship" my "neurodiversity executive function disordered house" - became like something from a hoarders TV show without the mountain dew 😂😂😂😂 I have found the help for the house came not only from "therapy, hiring a cleaner, decluttering" etc... but sometimes, a simple change of scenery or conversation. Some sort of change from the inertia really made a big difference, like pulling the right stick in "kerplunk". ❤😂🎉 so my pro tip is "look somewhere else" or even "wait" - as well as get help like the cleaning and therapy

[alittlesouthwindfarm]

Does this mean I sucked as a parent during early development. I remember working on all of these things but she struggled

[gradientcube]

Have dyslexia and had to go through a lot of support systems in kindergarten through intermediate. Now an adult and still have some issues but not so much in reading, etc.

[Revan]

A lot of things u decribe in this video decribe dyspraxia, which relates to fine motor skills, eg, doing shoe laces etc. Dyslexia and dyspraxia are 2 different things

[DouglasASean]

These vides about dyslexia all have really sunny moving graphics and sounds... like why make the text move, ? that just seems needlessly cruel lol

[charlieirvin]

I Was In special ED In School I was Called Retarded I can write and read but I can't count money or add or subtract or Multiply I have problems with Math

[lr]

Catch it early, you make it sound like a disease

[MENSA.lady]

Dyslexia is just a fabcy label doctors use to describe a kid who is as thick as a brick.